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
