Thanks to your article (UK net migration will start falling to pre-Brexit levels, analysis shows, 16 October), I have finally understood Rishi Sunak’s and Suella Braverman’s cunning plan: they are making life in Britain so intolerable that everyone here will leave and no one will come. It is genius. And the only Tory policy that seems to be working.
Malcolm Mottram
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
• Having just made a desultory attempt at an autumn tidy up in the garden, I can confidently state that, after all intelligent life on Earth has been wiped out, the only things to survive will be Liz Truss and briars.
Rod Price
Mollington, Oxfordshire
• Shame on the European Union (EU abandons promise to ban toxic chemicals in consumer products, 16 October). But what a great opportunity for the UK to demonstrate its newfound freedoms to announce its ban on these toxic chemicals immediately.
Jim Golcher
Towcester, Northamptonshire
• Bravo to the community of Hinstock, Shropshire, and their Falcon Inn (How a team of Shropshire villagers rallied to save their local pub, 12 October). These boys have the nous to start their own brewery at the pub too. Maybe there should be a Campaign for Free Pubs. Free from the ties with pub corporations and breweries that have resulted in extortionate prices for pints and empty pubs.
Michael Fuller
Harpenden, Hertfordshire
• My father used to say if you can smoke a fag while participating, it’s a pastime. If not, it’s a sport (Letters, 15 October)
Terry Mckeown
Maryport, Cumbria
• A game requires an opponent; a sport doesn’t.
Nick Pattinson
Stockport, Greater Manchester
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