I’m not sure why you give such prominence to the views of a Blairite who thinks nothing has changed since 2008 and that the sole aim of “our lot” is to get the other lot out, if need be with the help of a third lot (Labour must plan for coalition with Lib Dems, says Mandelson, 26 January). The intellectual and spiritual poverty of New Labour is apparent. The idea of social change is clearly long gone. This is Tweedledum politics of no interest to anyone without a broad bottom and a government limousine.
Brian Cope
Uldale, Cumbria
• Why is Ukip so exercised about blank fag packets (Plan for vote over plain cigarette packets, 23 January)? Now they can write their policies on the front too.
Bev Littlewood
London
• Maurice King suggests (Letters, 23 January) writing a posthumous email entitled “I have died” to be sent to one’s friends. While you are about it, why not also write your own obituary, as I have done, and leave it with your executors? Much safer than leaving it to someone else to write.
Chris Birch
London
• Please make a recording of your loved one’s voice. I wish I had.
Roy Arnold
Tenterden, Kent
• Jill Carr (Letters, 20 January) needs to do some catching up from the archive on doonesbury.com. Gary Trudeau has been doing a contemporary strip on Sundays throughout his work on Alpha House.
Nick Pearson
Spalding, Lincolnshire
• Those encouraging the use of Latinised plurals in everyday parlance without good reason need their crania knocked together and their recta kicked (Letters, 26 January).
Chris Osborne
Nottingham
• Daffodils already flowering spotted in garden in Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
Pete Lavender
Woodthorpe, Nottinghamshire
