One innocent minority group that the Guardian is always ready to have a pop at is geography teachers – often, in your fevered imagination, clad in elbow-patched tweed jackets. Now you’re at it again (‘I was an absolute maniac’: punk legend Wreckless Eric on storming Spotify despite sounding like Mickey Mouse, 23 August). I would remind you that these are the people who first taught you about global inequalities and climate change.
Martin Brayne (retired geography teacher)
Whitehough, Derbyshire
• Your correspondent writes that real-terms pay for MPs has not actually increased in 10 years (Letters, 24 August). Why was that statement of the obvious chosen for publication?
Peter Bottomley MP
House of Commons, London
