This week’s BBC Question Time was depressing viewing. It showed just how divisive the EU referendum was and how unwilling the Conservatives and Labour are to tackle the fallout. Given the politics of the last two decades this is not surprising. However, the most depressing aspect was that the loudest audience applause was for the most extreme views on both sides of the argument. Something very ugly has been unleashed and I wonder if we have politicians with the personality, will and ability to do anything about it.
Sylvia Roberts
Saintfield, Co Down
• Tacitus foresaw our current political situation. We have a prime minister who is capax imperii nisi imperasset: capable of ruling if only she had not ruled; and a foreign secretary who is tam stultus quam nobilis: as stupid as he was well born.
David Butler
London
• Congratulations to Jacob Rees-Mogg on the birth of Sixtus (Report, 6 July). The nation now awaits Septimus/Septima, Octavius/Octavia etc – that is unless Helena Rees-Mogg declares satis est satis.
Toby Wood
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
• As far as the “male public school tone” of Test Match Special goes (Letters, 7 July), the incomparable Henry Blofeld was educated at Eton. So was David Cameron. I shall leave your readers to decide which product of that illustrious institution has added more to the sum of human happiness.
Peter Dawson
Swansea
• Charlotte Mendelson’s contribution to “At last I fitted in” (Review, 1 July) resonated with me. My sister and I were Asterix fans as young teenagers and the orgy scene in Asterix in Switzerland had a profound effect on us too. Was it the air of cheesy abandonment, or the scanty togas? Either way, we delighted in shouting “Zing! Boom! Bring on the dancing girls!”, at each other over breakfast every morning. I was also rather “moved” by a scene in a Spider-Man comic where the devil disguises himself as a man and kisses Mary-Jane. Ah, the dark depths of a convent-educated teenager’s mind.
Tina Courtenay-Thompson
London
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