I nearly choked on my tofu when I saw Matt Hancock’s laughing face on your front page (‘Unsettlingly Victorian’ – Matt Hancock arrives on I’m a Celebrity for a public flogging, 9 November). Why give him this publicity? Could you instead have a photo of one of many thousands of public service workers committed to doing their jobs, not skiving off on a self-promotional jolly? Perhaps a low-paid teaching assistant supporting children with dyslexia, whose job is threatened by government cuts?
Jane Evans
Branch secretary, Unison Worcestershire branch
• “Liam announced … that he was a vegetarian,” says Jonathan in your regular feature (Dining across the divide, 3 November). He isn’t. He ordered (and presumably ate) fish stew. It’s this sort of confusion that leads to real vegetarians being offered fish all the time.
Jane Imrie
Collingham, Nottinghamshire
• Jonathan Freedland notes that Donald Trump “presided over three consecutive defeats in 2018, 2020 and 2022” (The winner of the midterms is not yet clear – but the loser is Donald Trump, 9 November). Should he have added 2016? Trump did after all lose to Hillary Clinton by 3 million in the popular vote.
Alan Gray
Brighton
• Alan Fairs suggests the Guardian use “thim” for him, her and them (Letters, 9 November). Please don’t. The royals use that term, and I wouldn’t have thim in the hice.
Brian Smith
Berlin, Germany
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