Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Letters

Assuming room temperature

Doctor holding stethoscope
What about the chap, who, when told by his GP that he only had two weeks to live, asked: 'Can I have the last week in July and the first in August?' Photograph: Burger/Rex

So how long before the first pensions mis-selling reports begin: a month, a year, or will we have to wait six or more years, as we did with PPI and the rest (Minister warns: don’t blow your pension today, 6 April)? But I saw at the weekend that holiday firms are gearing up for a bonanza, so maybe the impact will be felt much sooner.
David Reed
London

• Having just, thanks to the letter in the Guardian, subscribed to the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign (Letters, 6 April), I must ask, What about Mohamedou Ould Slahi, whose horrifying Guantánamo diary was published in January? He may not be British but we can still care about his torture and human rights.
Susan Reynolds
London

• There was one word missing from your readers’ editor’s piece on Kelvin MacKenzie (Open door, 6 April), and that word is “sorry”.
Karey Hunter
Leicester

• At the state comprehensive school where I taught in the 1990s, women teachers were addressed as “madam” (Letters, 6 April).
Julie Baker
Gloucester

• As a male volunteer in a junior school largely staffed by women, I am regularly addressed by the children as “miss”.
Bill Tordoff
Bedford

• Could the Large Hadron Collider be asked to explain why England never win on penalty shootouts (Cern restarts mission to explain everything, 6 April)? Please.
John Bailey
St Albans, Hertfordshire

• What about the chap, who, when told by his GP that he only had two weeks to live, asked: “Can I have the last week in July and the first in August?” (Letters, 4 April).
Alan Berry
Bingley, West Yorkshire

• Assuming room temperature (ie dead).
Dr John McGarry
Barnstaple, Devon

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.