So the Oxford Union is now under pressure from the cancel culture (Academics condemn ‘threats’ against Oxford Union in Kathleen Stock row, 17 May). I recall a Union debate in the early 60s when one of the speakers was Oswald Mosley. He was given a pretty rough ride. But the idea that we might have been forbidden to hear and debate his views would have been unthinkable.
John Prescott Thomas
Bristol
• I read the paper at breakfast time on Wednesday and sent off my email about Dorothy’s dog (Letters, 17 May) just after 8am. Then I did the quick crossword at lunchtime – and the clue for 10 across was “Dorothy’s dog”. How weird is that!
Pam Fraser
Cumnor, Oxfordshire
• I took my first Guardians (Letters, 8 May) when I was in the sixth form in 1949. I paid for them by selling water snails to the local aquarium shop for 3d (they retailed at 6d). Now I’m 90 and read it online.
Anthony Wilson
Lichfield
• The rewilding craze set off by the Chelsea flower show has gone too far. At my church fete last weekend the plant stall sold sycamore seedlings.
Liz Budd
Cambridge
• The Tory eccentrics who rabbit on about Marxists (Report, 16 May) should be asked when they last met one. I suspect they are too young.
Geoff Reid
Bradford
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