Your article (In the dragon’s den, G2, 14 July) brought out the geek in me: aged 17, in 1974, at a meeting of the South East London Wargames Group (venue: Grove Park Youth Centre), my friends and I acquired a boxed set of Dungeons & Dragons from an American guest. I suspect we were the first people in the UK to play, so by the 80s this was old hat to us. But I recall the huge excitement and pleasure of our first campaign, which lasted nine months and almost certainly clipped a grade off each of my A-Levels!
Stephen Johnson
Burpham, Surrey
• In the 40 years I spent working at the Foreign Office, I was often reminded of the old adage that a diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. It appears our new foreign secretary already has 50% of the attributes he will need in his new job and has been recognised for this by the French foreign minister (Liar, celebrity, joke: how other countries see Britain’s new foreign secretary, 16 July).
Harry Wiles
Esher, Surrey
• An Etonian scholar named Boris, / Though well-versed in Homer and Horace, / Was rather a berk / He offended a Turk / Who cast him head-first in the Bosphorus.
Peter Nockolds
London
• Andrea Leadsom has suggested that men should not be allowed to be nannies, because of the danger of paedophilia. What next – men should not be fathers?
Catherine Walter
Linacre College, University of Oxford
• Clive James (Weekend, 16 July) writes that when Roger Federer “floats up on to his toes … there is no woman in the world who is not sighing”. Doesn’t he realise that many of us women save our sighs for the likes of Martina Navratilova?
Jane McKears
Birmingham
• With her sense of humour, journalistic skill, and excellent car reviews (Weekend, 16 July), Zoe Williams should be asked to present the next series of Top Gear.
Paul Scott
Ilford, Essex
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