Yomi Adegoke is right to point out the tyranny of the school skirt (G2, 11 July), but what message are we giving out to our young women when smart school uniform for a girl includes a blazer and tie? Doesn’t this imply that girls are expected to emulate a certain type of male role model if they are to be taken seriously? Strange, as they will never dress like this again.
Joanna Cave
Faringdon, Oxfordshire
• Your otherwise excellent article on the damage drinking can do to the family and friends of problem drinkers (G2, 9 July) omitted to mention Al-Anon, which is devoted to supporting the family and friends of alcoholics and has groups across the country. See www.al-anonuk.org.uk
Margaret Jones
Northampton
• As an American postgraduate student in the 70s, I first encountered Izal toilet paper (Letters, 13 July) in the ladies’ toilet at the British Museum Reading Room. Each square of paper had a royal crest saying it was the property of Her Majesty the Queen.
Ann-Marie LeQuesne
London
• In 1979 my wife gave birth to triplets. She always intended to write a book about the difficulties and delights of this. She hasn’t written it yet, but if she does it will be called A Womb With a Few (Letters, 11 July).
Andrew Ockwell
East Wittering, West Sussex
• Is Boris Johnson now copying Churchill’s bent stance, or has he simply developed terrible posture?
Louise Thomson
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
• Should the supporters of Boris Johnson be called “pro-rogue”?
Richard Stallman
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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