Your report says most US bases in Britain “misleadingly … have ‘Royal Air Force’ in their name” (Bunker busters and a Burger King: a visual guide to US military bases on British soil, 12 April). Driving past Lakenheath in the cold war years, I always thought the “Ministry of Defense” perimeter notices were a bit of a giveaway.
David Griffiths
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
• Re your report (I do not fear Trump, says Pope Leo after US president calls him ‘weak’, 13 April), we’ve been in much the same place before, when Joseph Stalin asked: “How many divisions does the Pope have?”
Robin Jacob
London
• Can I suggest that Donald Trump tries walking on water (Trump deletes post with AI image of himself as Jesus-like figure after outcry, 13 April)?
Colin Jones
West Norwood, London
• Economists and political theorists have put forward many arguments for a more progressive tax regime in the UK. None are as compelling as your article on the rise of luxury matchboxes (12 April).
Martin Andrew
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
• Like Geoff Reid (Letters, 13 April), my husband and I were delighted to receive our bus passes. What would make our happiness complete would be a local bus service so that we could put them to use.
Sue Gilbert
Charlton Horethorne, Somerset
• My late cousin Mike, ordering business cards, said his surname was “Clarke with an E” (Letters, 10 April). He received 200 cards with the name “Mike Clark-Withaney”.
John Beer
Farnham, Surrey
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