Your article (‘Banishment-level posh’: why is The Traitors so middle-class?, 8 January) doesn’t mention that the application form for The Traitors asks you to be available for up to four weeks in the summer. Little hope for working-class would-be contestants in our gig-economy, zero-hours, can’t-take-more-than-two-weeks-off-in-a-row culture.
Liv Bishop
London
• Xaymaca Awoyungbo’s article resonated (They say a name like mine can hold you back in life, but I will never change it, 13 January). When I was a student, a senior doctor suggested I change my “difficult” name to advance in my career. I resisted due to pride in my heritage that my name represented. I have not done too badly, becoming a consultant urology surgeon and a professor, and gaining an MBE.
Prof Frank Chinegwundoh
London
• Sending Lord Mandelson to Washington seems a waste of his talents when David Lammy can tell without leaving Whitehall what Donald Trump has in mind (US seizure of Greenland is ‘not going to happen’, says David Lammy, 9 January).
John Spencer
London
• Dinner ladies at my school implored pupils to eat an apple after gypsy tart, to mitigate the effect of so much sugar on our teeth (Letters, 12 January), but not after treacle tart. I left school in the 1970s with nine O-levels and 10 fillings.
Brian Rees
Frittenden, Kent
• Non-stick frying pans may be “useful” (Editorial, 14 January), but are not necessary. I have used my cast-iron frying pan for 50 years. During that time it has become non‑stick, and has shed no PFAS.
Joanna Collins
Edale, Derbyshire
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