When I was a child my father used to say: “If, when you grow up, you pay a lot of tax, be glad. It means you’ve earned a lot of money.” Perhaps Nadhim Zahawi could take some comfort from that (Nadhim Zahawi to pay millions in tax after dispute over family finances, 15 January).
Jean Lees
Wolverhampton
• When my sister and I stayed with our grandma in the late 1940s, there was no bathroom in the house, just a bowl in the kitchen sink. We were stripped off, given a hot soapy flannel and told to “wash up as far as possible, wash down as far as possible, and then wash possible” (Letters, 16 January).
Maggie Greaves
Milton Keynes
