Last week, I emailed Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay to a friend as we chatted about the false autumn, our feelings and the pathetic fallacy, wishing we had listened more in 1950s school lessons (Editorial, 28 August). I looked out at yellow lawns, brown leaves falling, bushes dying, and hoped this was not the autumn of my life. We look to nature for hope in life, and we must protect this.
Jean Jackson
Seer Green, Buckinghamshire
• Dominic Cummings had broken the rules; Emily Maitlis said so and got reprimanded for not being objective enough. Will Wyatt’s letter (28 August) and its patronising dismissal of Maitlis’s “homily” demonstrates why the BBC is losing the trust of viewers. People want wrongdoing firmly exposed, rather than woolly Wyattisms hedged about by Latin phrases. It’s why so many good people are quitting the BBC.
Fulton Gillespie
Burwell, Cambridgeshire
• If it is any consolation to those concerned by Welsh students leaving for English universities (Letters, 25 August), two of my English grandchildren are heading to Welsh universities – namely Cardiff and Swansea – and are looking forward to pursuing their chosen subjects immensely.
Margaret Woolacott
Lancing, West Sussex
• I was disappointed by Zoe Williams’ reference to Richard III as “the hunchbacked king” in your print edition (G2, 25 August). One of the discoveries from finding his remains is that, though he suffered from scoliosis, he was not a hunchback.
John Dakin
Toddington, Bedfordshire
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