The headteacher was right to admonish parents who wear pyjamas to drop their children off at school, as it invites negative class and gender stereotyping (Ban mamas in pyjamas? Parents split over head’s strict dress code at the school gates, 28 January). Parents and students should realise that to move upwards in our society it is necessary to imitate in order to infiltrate, and it is difficult to do this in your nightclothes.
John Linfoot
Bournemouth
• Mary Dejevsky (We like Eurocrime fiction yet kill the facts, 27 January) will be glad to hear that the Astra satellite still exists and still broadcasts the entire output of the German public service broadcasters ARD and ZDF, together with regional variations. Every evening we watch Tagesschau (main news broadcast), together with Tagesthemen, Brisant and other topical programmes of German/European interest.
Desmond Hodgins
Greasby, Wirral
• I’ve found that slugs are very good at eating cat-sick, and making the patio look a bit better than it did (Letters, 27 January). Would that George Osborne were half so useful.
Helen Rees
Southampton
• It was great to see an engineering-based “How we made…” (How we made the Eurostar, G2, 26 January). Let’s have more of them. And you could even have some science.
John Freeman
Kingswinford, West Midlands
• Quick crossword no 14,262 must have been written by someone on the spear-side, not to know that a distaff is different from a spindle (13 down).
Mary Jackson
Gilston, Hertfordshire
