Apart from the worthy cause that Sreepur represents, what an extraordinarily beautiful photograph you showed of the women at the orphanage making their cards for sale, with children looking on (Greetings from Sreepur in Bangladesh, 6 December). It has a Renaissance quality that speaks a thousand words and made me immediately go to the website (sreepurcards.org) – congratulations to the photographer.
Catharine Thompson
Edinburgh
• Regarding the difficulty in imagining a Christmas card cause more ludicrous than an emergency rescue scheme for Scottish terriers (Letters, 6 December), I wonder how the Scottish Labour party’s seasonal fundraising is progressing.
Simon Blackburn
Penzance
• I am 70 and I’d be more disturbed to see Nigel Farage in public than I would any female mammal feeding her offspring (Just sit in the corner. Farage advice to breastfeeders, 6 December). It’s best to think before making unsubstantiated statements about what disturbs us oldies.
Angus Doulton
Bere Ferrers, Devon
• Philip Davies MP says the international development bill is “a handout to make a few middle-class, Guardian-reading, sandal-wearing, lentil-eating do-gooders with a misguided guilt complex feel better about themselves” (Report, 5 December). Doesn’t he know we all eat quinoa now?
Joe English
London
• Has the world fallen in (Report, 5 December)? Yes, George, yes it absolutely has, for so many many people. But not of course for you, and not for the people who pulled it down in their greed and selfishness. Crass, supercilious and careless, everything one could want from a chancellor…
Alison Gardner
St Albans, Hertfordshire
