I really am very grateful indeed for the long read on the Italian blackshirt movement (22 February) that slithers around the CasaPound in Rome as it will enable me to refute those who, when I am visiting the Vatican, suggest that I may have some sympathy with the foul creed of fascism, when this Pound is actually an obscure politician from London whose sympathies arc far more towards Gramsci than to Mussolini. I cannot speak for my far distant relative Ezra, but then no one could.
Steve Pound MP
Labour, Ealing North
• Is the suffering of a lobster any more important than that of a mussel, and if not, do I have to electrocute every single one prior to making my moules marinière (Letters, 22 February)?
Ian Dowding
Herstmonceux, East Sussex
• So the Beaker people, who arrived in Britain about 5,000 years ago, ousted the pre-Beaker population, who “were replaced and … never came back” (Report, 22 February). Has anybody mentioned this to the present-day relatives of 10,000-year-old Cheddar Man?
Tim Cobb
Nottingham
• Incarcerated in a boarding school in the 1950s, we girls never forgot our basic trigonometry equations: “Some Officers Have Curly Auburn Hair To Offer Attraction” (Letters, 23 February). We could only dream and hope as we tackled our triangles!
Valerie Lewis
Wantage, Oxfordshire
• A logical linguistic evolution has led us to LGBTQI+ but is it time for something more warm and fuzzy, like Gensex?
Alison Smith
Norwich
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