Thank you for you excellent review of Helen Mathers’ book, Josephine Butler, the Patron Saint of Prostitutes (Society, 5 November). We at the Josephine Butler Society continue to press for the greater safety and rights of sex workers. We are against the Nordic model, which criminalises the clients on the basis that pimps and procurers are the least likely to be prosecuted and the risk of destroying lives and families is high. Our view, simply stated, is that it should be legal for two women to work together in a property, with a maid, thereby promoting security and avoiding coercion.
Sally Cass
Josephine Butler Society
• So George Osborne is once more going on about “hardworking taxpayers” (A giant mailshot to justify cuts, 4 November). Does he really expect us to think that anyone out of work pays no taxes? No VAT? No fuel duty? No tobacco duty? Perhaps he should tell them.
Ella Holmes
Burton-in-Lonsdale, North Yorkshire
• I became a friend of Kew Gardens to support the millennium seed bank and a friend of the Wetland Centre to help provide space for migrating birds. How can I become a friend of the BBC World Service (Editorial, 3 November)? There must be others like me who believe passionately in the cause.
Stephanie White
London
• At the age of 90, I am an oldie. In photography we have the selfie. In fashion we have the onesie and the twosie. Can we now call Cameron, Clegg and Miliband a threesie? Guess who is trying to make it a foursie.
Iris Philpott
Loughborough, Leicestershire
• I’d like to direct the fashion-conscious to our local workwear dealer ,who sells a lovely boilersuit for about £25 (Letters, 5 November). It’s very hard-wearing and washes up a treat. I wear mine (together with my safety boots) to operate our local windmill.
Jenny Hartland (aged 65)
York
