Your editorial (The Guardian view on Jack Reacher: enduring appeal, 9 February) rightly refers to me as an admirer of the works of Lee Child. The thought that there is a new Jack Reacher to read in the evening makes the whole day whizz by happily. But I have wondered lately how he would manage working from home.
Antonia Fraser
London
• Membership of the mile-high club is more exclusive than Pass Notes would have us believe (Flights of passion: how the mile-high club became big business, 7 February). When my wife and I worked for Pan American Airlines in the late 1960s, the rules were widely acknowledged. To qualify, it was necessary for it to have taken place “with somebody new, not with the crew and not in the loo”.
David Rogers
London
• The headline “Marbles return could be a lovely jubilee gesture” on the letters in your print edition (9 February) instantly evoked a delightful vision of massed British subjects crouched over their beloved glass marbles, cheered on by an enthusiastic Queen. Dull reality struck on reading the word “Parthenon”.
Pauline Heron
Cononley, North Yorkshire
• I’m sure that Boris Johnson is not a clown (Letters, 8 February), because when he does go, you just can’t imagine anyone saying “those will be big shoes to fill”.
Jem Whiteley
Oxford
• Can we have an Elizabeth line from Sheffield to Manchester? We’d be quite happy for it to open with a few flaws (‘It has to be flawless’: long wait for London’s Elizabeth line is nearly over, 8th February).
Prof Mark Doel
Sheffield
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