Tim Martin of JD Wetherspoon and Michael O’Leary of Ryanair are in dispute over pre-flight drinking and its resultant antisocial behaviour, I hear, after O’Leary suggested a two-drink limit. Could I suggest that they settle their differences in the time-honoured fashion befitting such gentlemen? A scuffle after closing time in the short-term car park at Luton airport would suggest itself.
Ian Simpson
London
• You report (29 August) that Tory ministers habitually underbudgeted for asylum, making up the difference from Treasury contingency funds. And that a Labour source described this practice as “like the wild west”. It sounds as though it could be the basis for a thrilling Clint Eastwood movie. For a Billion Dollars More?
Alan Gray
Brighton