Having now watched Napoleon, I agree with every word of Agnès Poirier’s blistering critique (Like the rest of France, I couldn’t wait for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Then I actually saw it, 24 November), but also with your five-star review. Congratulations to the Guardian and Ridley Scott for achieving the kind of balance that the BBC can only dream of.
Gareth Calway
Sedgeford, Norfolk
• One consequence of the fall of Edward Colston is that English teachers at my old school, now known as Montpelier High, can no longer use “Colston’s girls’ school’s sixth form’s stairs” as a test of their pupils’ apostrophe appreciation (Letters, 29 November).
Catherine Bracey
Bristol
• The “calve’s liver” promoted a year ago by our local butcher is still exercising my mind.
Brenda Kersey
Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire
• It was nice to be reminded of that old New Statesman competition on advice to a foreign visitor to London, won by Gerard Hoffnung (Letters, 28 November). Another answer was “a single yellow line on a road means you can park for one hour, and two yellow lines means you can park for two hours”.
Tony Wright
Birmingham
• I also recall the New Statesman competition. My favourite was “try the famous echo in the reading room at the British Museum”.
Anthony Burton
Stroud, Gloucestershire
• And then there was the blissful “all London brothels display a blue light”. Blessed Hoffnung!
Rosi Jarvis
Langar, Nottinghamshire
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