Detractors of Hartshead Moor East service station, and its defenders (Letters, 23 October), have missed the fact that it stands on the site of Peep Green, the moorland area where Chartists held huge outdoor meetings in 1838, 1839 and 1848. The meeting in May 1839 is thought to be the largest political gathering held in Britain up until then, with 250,000 people. Which is nice to think of over your cup of coffee.
Cris Yelland
Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham
• You rightly ridicule Suella Braverman’s use of “tofu-eating” to stereotype those who do not agree with her (‘It’s not woke’: Braverman dig leaves bitter taste in Tory tofu capital, 21 October). Would the same apply to your use of “Barbour-jacket-wearing” to characterise Malton, “the UK’s capital of tofu”, in the same article?
Dermot Killingley
Newcastle upon Tyne
