My husband and I have lived just outside Ely for 48 years and we did not recognise the city described in Weekend magazine (20 April). “Surrounded by marshes and miasmas”? Tell that to the farmers. “Cobbled lanes and cottages?” Perhaps Tom Dyckhoff could let us know where they are – we haven’t seen them.
Linda Green
Little Downham, Cambridgeshire
• Myanmar does indeed exemplify religious intolerance (Letters, 26 April), but it is not part of the Indian subcontinent. Geography aside, the tolerance in ancient civilisations there and elsewhere (eg, the Indus Valley) was eventually wrecked by colonialism.
Chris Hughes
Leicester
• I’ve visited two regional exhibitions of Leonardo drawings (Letters, 25 April). In Glasgow the exhibition was free of charge to visit, in Bristol there was an admission fee. If England leaves the EU I think I’ll go and live in Scotland, if they’ll have me. It’s better in so many ways.
Dr Heather Parry
Watford, Hertfordshire
• Juliette Garside’s report (25 April) shines a light on why so many of the super wealthy support Brexit. The EU wants to make investigation of secretive financial trusts much easier. If we leave Europe that just won’t happen here. Now I understand.
Kit Jackson
London
• When Kate Andrews (Letters, 25 April) took issue with some of Zoe Williams’ report on courtly courtesy, she said she did something “off her own back”. The correct expression is, of course, “off her own bat”. An understandable slip by one from a non-cricketing nation.
Phillip Khan-Panni
Naas, Ireland
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