The Travel section’s choice of the 50 best UK pubs (27 October) was fascinating, but I was astonished that there were no pubs from the city where I learned to drink and regularly return to enjoy the hospitality at its numerous fine hostelries: Glasgow. Surely some mistake?
Mike Pender
Cardiff
• I assume it goes without saying that Weekend will now stop listing Topshop fashions in its features (Green: ‘There was banter and humour but I meant no offence’, 29 October). I’ve spent 15 years trying to explain to my daughter why she shouldn’t shop there. I could use some help.
Sheila Hayman
London
• Don’t be too quick to judge anyone’s selection of a free newspaper in Waitrose (Letters, 27 October). As a Guardian subscriber, I will have already read my paper by the time I shop, so will pick up a free Telegraph (though never a Daily Mail) just to see how the other half are seeing the world.
Sarah Miles
Macclesfield, Cheshire
• To paraphrase an old near-ubiquitous sign, as a “nation of shopkeepers”, Britons should be aware that “If you Brexit, you pays for it” (Letters, 27 October).
Hal Dunkelman
Cote, Oxfordshire
• What to do with pumpkin leftovers (Letters, 29 October)? Simple. Save the seeds; grow your own pumpkins!
Martin Datta
Lincoln
• Years ago Gore Vidal appeared on a Radio 4 show to discuss his memoir Palimpsest. When a fellow guest described the work as meretricious, quick as a flash Gore replied: “Meretricious and a happy new year” (Letters, 27 October).
Richard Hughes
Llanmaes, South Glamorgan
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