The Reform UK Party Limited, with Nigel Farage as its leader, has produced five core pledges, all of which start with the word “imagine”. I much prefer John Lennon’s exhortations to imagine people living for today, living life in peace and sharing all the world. You may say Lennon was a dreamer, but he wasn’t the only one.
Toby Wood
Peterborough
• Having been named after Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes, and endured Hey Jude being sung to me when I introduce myself, I had hoped that Bellingham might change this. Having heard him being serenaded, I fear that this is a lost cause (Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat, 16 June).
Jude Carr
London
• It’s not just Tayor Swift (Letters, 12 June). As an elderly second-wave feminist (OK, I’m not sure my daughter’s forgiven me for the boiler suits and kaftans), I’m asking why do these very talented poets and musicians feel obliged to leap about in glittery swimsuits and the occasional pair of thigh-high boots?
Cat Bracey
Bristol
• There is no such butterfly as a “cabbage white” (‘Magical’: 17m insects fly each year through narrow pass in Pyrenees, say scientists, 12 June). This is a loose term for two white butterflies – the large white and the small white – both of which may eat your cabbages, although there are other white butterflies that won’t.
Liz Lloyd
Malvern, Worcestershire
• Your editorial (12 June) says “water privatisation” is a failed experiment. The extraneous word “water” seems to have crept in.
John Symonds
Ryde, Isle of Wight
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