As Rishi Sunak travels the UK in an RAF jet (Sunak’s private jet to Scotland may have breached ministerial code, says Labour, 31 July), perhaps he should consider that his expert pilot has just received the lowest percentage pay increase of all public sector workers (5%) and that, with no recourse to comment (let alone strike), all our military personnel have endured real-terms pay cuts for over a decade.
Lynne Power
Frithville, Lincolnshire
• Sloughvian? Nice to see my home town get a mention (Mick Jagger’s 80 greatest moments, on his 80th birthday, 26 July), but if you’re from Slough, you’re a Paludian (Latin, palus, paludis: swamp, slough, marsh), as any former pupil of the local grammar school will tell you.
Simon Lacey
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
