Re your letters on what’s cool (Letters, 4 November), I am so often reminded of Barack Obama’s 2016 commencement address to graduating students at Rutgers University: “In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. It is not cool to not know what you are talking about. Not knowing what you’re talking about is not keeping it real, telling it like it is, or challenging political correctness. It’s just not knowing what you’re talking about.”
Ian Dawson
Heywood, Lancashire
• Surely the singer songwriter Nick Lowe is the ultimate in cool. He even released an album with the title Jesus of Cool.
Susan Baillie
Weymouth, Dorset
• One can debate endlessly on the identities of the cool, but it was Huey Lewis and the News, way back in 1986, who reminded us that it’s hip to be square.
David Hodgetts
Morpeth, Northumberland
• Neither England nor Britain existed as a political entity when Caesar invaded in 55BCE and Claudius in 43CE (Letters, 5 November). The Romans invaded the ancient iron age Celtic Kingdom of Cantium, now known as Kent.
Martin Pilgrim
Hoath, Kent
• Spare a thought for the residents of Epstein Road in Thamesmead, London (Calls to change ‘embarrassing’ Prince Andrew road names in Maidenhead, 4 November).
David Edwards Hulme
Stockport, Greater Manchester
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