In his high-profile, national newspaper opinion column, Andy Beckett wonders why Nigel Farage and his tiny Westminster party receive such huge coverage (Why does Nigel Farage get to play British politics on easy mode?, 13 June). It’s like a driver bemoaning the amount of traffic on the road when he is the traffic. Just stop typing, mate.
Paul Masterman
Shifnal, Shropshire
• Nothing new under the sun, Arwa Mahdawi (Strangers on the street: please stop asking me if my wife is my twin sister, 11 June). My husband is nine years younger than I am and people have been asking for decades if he was my son. My usual answer is: “Do I really look that old?”
Ralf R Radermacher
Cologne, Germany
