Theresa May said at prime minister’s questions this week that she thinks it is important that we mark the centenary of the election of the first female MP next year. Since the woman in question was Constance Markievicz, a member of Sinn Féin who had been imprisoned and sentenced to death for her part in the fighting in Dublin in 1916, I look forward Mrs May’s taking part in this commemoration with great interest.
Tadhg McGrath
Dublin, Ireland
• Ironmongers replaced by a nail bar (Letters, 26 October)? Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose!
Roger Munday
Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
• The issue raised in your article (Men take more leisure time than women, says work-life study, 25 October) is unfortunately not new. Teaching women’s studies some years ago, I looked at the statistics around this and found that the main leisure activity for women was “watching indoor swimming”. Duh.
Lizzie Shorrocks
Brighouse, West Yorkshire
• Perhaps Peter Ghosh of St Anne’s College, Oxford, who thinks that if there was a quick fix to the admissions problem someone would have found it (Letters, 24 October) should pay Helena Kennedy a visit round the corner at Mansfield College, where they clearly have found it, judging by her letter on the same page!
John Thorn
Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire
• Having read the Guardian for 40 years, I am writing to express my shame at being a white, middle-aged, middle-class, Christian, heterosexual male. I do vote Labour, though, so maybe I am OK.
Frank Danes
Ely, Cambridgeshire
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