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
• It was Mackeson, not Guinness (Letters, 28 August), prescribed to us breastfeeding new mothers at the County Hospital in Griffithstown, near Pontypool, Monmouthshire, in 1966. Crates of it were freely available in the galley/ward kitchen.
Alison Leighton
Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire
• An oversight in Yotam Ottolenghi’s answer to keeping green veg green when cooking them (Ask Ottolenghi, 24 August)? Steam them instead!
Gary Bennett
Exeter
• Nominative determinism strikes again: the man convicted of throwing objects at Nigel Farage lives in Clowne (Report, 28 August).
David Shannon
Ashton under Hill, Worcestershire
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