It is difficult to believe that Cherie Blair has rarely read “a more sensationalist and inaccurate story” than the one in the Guardian concerning her email exchange with Hillary Clinton about meeting Sheikha Mozah (Letters, 4 July). Surely her husband’s description of the intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction as “extensive, detailed and authoritative” takes the biscuit in this regard.
Charlie Cooper
University of Hull
• You argue that the new Lib Dem leader must be “hi-vis” and suggest Tim Farron is the person (Editorial, 4 July). What better way for him to achieve such visibility than growing a traditional Liberal beard?
Keith Flett
London
• “Without warning or provocation [the leopard] grabbed the ranger’s arm” (Report, 4 July). What was it supposed to do – give seven days’ notice in writing? It’s a leopard!
John Richards
Oxford
• Paul Scott’s garden bird (Letters, 4 July) may be overhearing the song it repeats. We have a garden blackbird that constantly repeats seven notes of Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer – a tune played by our local mobile ice-cream vendor.
Lynda Hogan
Grantham, Lincolnshire
• So Britain’s second-best men’s tennis player is the son of a taxi driver (Cabby’s son joins Murray in the third round, 3 July)? He’s called James Ward – and you’re the Guardian, so raise your game.
Carmen Cabrera
(Carpenter’s daughter), London
• “Prince calls for end to fossil fuel subsidies” (3 July)? Is this a Sign o’ the Times?
Ant Brewerton
Coventry
