I was interested to read that Peter Mandelson was seen going to the park to walk his dog “like a weekending solicitor on his way to an egg and spoon race” (Walking the dog and braving the paps, 25 April). Are there other professions known for their love of children’s games? Maybe a retired GP going to play musical chairs, or a pair of award-winning architects en route to a three-legged race?
Lesley Warner
Ilford, London
• Re Graham Head’s point about Nigel Farage (Letters, 23 April), if the job of the US ambassador is to be an obsequious boot-licker at the court of King Donald, Farage was eminently qualified. If he’d been appointed, he wouldn’t be where he is now. And we wouldn’t be where we are now either.
James Wilkinson
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
• Regarding EV charging, how many households with no off-street parking can guarantee a parking spot outside their door (Shake-up will help UK motorists without driveways to charge EVs, 21 April)? Very few. This is a pretence at a solution.
Andy Miller
Montrose, Angus
• The hardest Shakespeare play to watch (Letters, 24 April) was Titus Andronicus at Stratford-upon-Avon years ago, with people fainting at the gory bits. I gather the director Lucy Bailey holds the record for people fainting at London’s Globe.
Helen Keating
Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway
• Your article (Your UK pension is no longer safe from inheritance tax: what should you do?, 25 April) missed out the most responsible thing to do: pay the tax!
Steve Miall
Higher Poynton, Cheshire
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