Imagine Charles Dickens reporting the Vardy v Rooney case, with the winners being the lawyers (Rebekah Vardy loses ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case against Coleen Rooney, 29 July). A serial of episodes followed by the book. So which Guardian writer will get there first?
Mike Cobb
Stanford-le-Hope, Essex
• You report that Rishi Sunak favours grammar schools (Ben Wallace endorses Liz Truss as Sunak backs new grammar schools, 29 July) and note “some Conservative MPs have long hankered after their return, despite evidence that they tend to disproportionately benefit the children of wealthier families”. Surely the word you are looking for is not despite but because?
Alan Gray
Brighton
