Paul Chadwick’s interesting article on honorifics (Open door, 12 November) brought to mind a general irritation. It would be most helpful to those of us with short memories if the first mention of anyone’s name in an article could be highlighted, so that when one comes across an isolated surname further along, it is easier to refer back to the full details. Reading the whole article all over again just to find a name is no pleasure. I hope this can be a consideration in the future.
Christine Faithfull
Chichester
• Katharine Viner’s article (One million supporters: ‘Reader funding model is working. It’s inspiring’, 13 November) is particularly heartening to me. In the mid to late 1960s, when the Guardian cost 6d and was in deep financial trouble, I bought two copies every day, in the hope of the paper surviving. Phew! It’s been a long haul!
Martin Plaster
Bristol
• Re your editorial on organ donation (3 November), at what point have all your bits become well past their sell-by date? I am 83 and while I still function, after a fashion, I can’t think I have anything left still in good enough condition to be worth my having a donor card.
Jeanne Felmingham
Grove, Oxfordshire
• If the Dutch “positivity guru” is successful in his aim to self-identify as 20 years younger (Report, 9 November), perhaps British women who were born in the 1950s could self-identify as six years older so they get their pensions on time?
Richard Gilyead
Saffron Walden, Essex
• The British museum has an autograph copy of For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon. He wrote “condemn” (Letters, 13 November).
John Illingworth
Bradford
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