Khrushchev may have sent wine to the Irish chair of the UN assembly (Report, 14 November), but Harold Macmillan surely deserved some too. When Khrushchev starting banging his shoe, Macmillan turned to his interpreter and asked: “Could I have that translated, please?”
Darren Maughan
London
• I quite agree that “nipples shouldn’t be nefarious” (Do women have to wear bras at work?, 12 November). Men also have them, so every human being would be committing a crime.
Judith Abbs
London
• Ms Felmingham (Letters, 14 November) can rest assured that, even at 83 and after, a body can be of assistance to others. My mother, now 80, has left instructions that her body is to be donated to McGill university’s medical school, for the students to learn on. Those medical students organise an annual ceremony to honour those who donated their bodies to science.
Judith Flanders
London
• One organ that can be donated at any age is the cornea. As it has no direct blood supply, even those from people with cancer and other diseases can be donated. My aunt’s eyes were donated at the age of 80 and two people had their sight restored.
Annette Ray
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
• Your article on veganism (G2, 15 November) implies we are somehow forcing honeybees to do more than they can manage. When I last inspected my bees I noticed that worker bees function with regularity and precision – they can’t “overwork” – while for drones any sort of work is not a thing at all.
Ellie Sedgwick
Halesworth, Suffolk
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