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The Guardian - UK
Politics

Please, spare us more pictures of Boris Johnson

Dilyn in the snow in the garden of No 10 Downing Street.
Christine Betts would rather see pictures of the former prime minister’s dog, Dilyn. Photograph: Pippa Fowles/No10 Downing Street

Does every article featuring some mention of Boris Johnson (Analysis, 16 June) really have to include a photo of this man? Surely we all know what he looks like (sadly). Photos of Dilyn the dog would be acceptable.
Christine Betts
Bristol

• At the time Partygate was kicking off, I wrote to my MP, Sir Bernard Jenkin, asking him whether he had attended any such “events” (Boris Johnson calls for Tory MP on privileges committee to resign, 14 June). I did not receive a reply. Thanks to the Guardian, at least I know now that “he does not recall” an event for his wife’s birthday.
Val Mainwood
Wivenhoe, Essex

• The headline on the article about Miriam Margolyes in Vogue calls her a “national treasure” (Miriam Margolyes: ‘I never had any shame about being gay’, 13 June). However, I’ve heard her on TV describe herself as being more like a “national trinket”.
Jonathan Hammonds
Shrewsbury, Shropshire

• For the final verse of Edward Perronet’s splendid hymn All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name, sung at my (first) retirement service a few years ago, autocorrect omitted the final R from the line that normally reads: “Oh, that with yonder sacred throng” (Letters, 16 June). Needless to say, we sang it with gusset-o!
Fr Alec Mitchell
Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus

• Re autocorrect (Letters, 16 June), some years ago I texted my sons on an old Nokia to tell them their mother’s travel plans had been disrupted by the weather. The text they received read: “Nun stuck in dog at airport.”
Anthony Ferner
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

• 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.

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