Instead of holding street parties for the coronation, why not double up the joy and resurrect the good old Tupperware variety? Extra sales might save the company (Tupperware warns it could go bust without emergency funding, 11 April), and it would be a nod to the memory of Queen, given her well-publicised extensive use of the product.
David Duell
Durham
• Keir Starmer thinks cannabis is “ruining lives in his constituency” (Opinion, 10 April)? As a constituent of his, one of the things that most makes me wistful about the mental escape available to me in my student days, when I’d curl up with some dope-laced chocolate fudge, is the fact that Starmer is my MP.
Albert Beale
London
• As a taxpayer, I would rather my money be spent on paying a decent salary to a doctor than on paying an MP (salary £84,144 plus expenses), who may have no qualifications or experience whatsoever.
Carolyn Charlesworth
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
• Dr Laurence Cox (Letters, 11 April) ignores the vastly different meanings of the words “cost” and “worth”. So yes, I suggest that although the UK’s monarchy costs only £1.80 per capita, it is to me worth far, far less.
Stuart Rogers
Exeter
• A very interesting article (The man who walked around the world, 11 April), but given that 70% of the world’s surface area is water, it would have been useful to have had a map showing the route.
Charles Thomson
London
• Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
