Your article (Turn empty London office blocks into ‘late-night party zones’, report suggests, 13 July) misses the real opportunity to promote using those ghastly, unsightly Towers of Babel for something useful: housing. Forget partying, think existing. Let’s redeem the disasters of the past and give people somewhere to live.
Janet Tomlinson
Andover, Hampshire
• Jonathan Jones says: “This is where celebrity artists get it wrong: they think art is fun but art is suffering and madness” (Ed Sheeran’s Pollock homage has energy but no feeling or truth, 9 July). Is he not confusing “art” with “art criticism”?
John Warburton
Edinburgh
• The correspondence on beards (Letters, 13 July) reminds me of when I was in the civil service and, at a meeting, one of our managers warned us: “Never trust a man with a beard.” This was in full hearing of one of the other managers who was bearded.
Ian Arnott
Werrington, Peterborough
• A beard is not always a good travelling companion. In the 1970s, my husband was stopped at the Czechoslovakian border because he had a beard but his passport did not. The border guards made him shave it off before they would let him in.
Christine Crawshaw
London
• Somerset cows bunch nose to tail so that one cow’s tail is another’s fan and fly swat (Panting, gular fluttering and sploots: how Britain’s animals try to keep cool, 11 July).
Prof Terry Gifford
Wookey, Somerset
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