I went to the local takeaway at the weekend to order the family supper, only to be told that it had no chips to go with the fish. I couldn’t believe it. Boris Johnson might survive petrol shortages, a worry about Christmas turkeys or an absence of toilet rolls, but a shortage of chips? No chance.
Roger Taylor
Seaford, East Sussex
• Re Steve Baker’s letter on Germany (27 September), we are a retired English couple living in France. No fuel shortages, no food shortages – in fact no shortages. And there’s no anti-English feeling or guffawing at Brexit. Just sadness that the UK has chosen to self-harm.
Philip Hilton
Ruffec, Charente, France
• I see that scum has returned to the letters page (27 September), though with no mention of tea this time (19 September). Oddly, there does seem to be some correlation between hard water areas and Conservative constituencies. Is there some way to remove it from the top of the Tory party?
Roger Winterbottom
Skipton, North Yorkshire
• In the Wordsearch (G2, 27 September), words associated with student life include “money”, “debt”, “clubbing”, “pub” etc. There is no mention of “study”, “lecture”, “seminar” or similar. Is this a covert comment on the state of higher education today?
Jackie Epps
Alton, Hampshire
• Re “inadequately trained volunteer staff” in libraries (Letters, 24 September), the volunteers at our local library are capable and well able to reshelve books in the correct place. Without them, there would be no library in our village.
Mary Ann Reed
Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire
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