How can Alan Bond assert (Letters, 9 June) that the Blair government was as responsible as Thatcher for the state of bus services? Blair brought in free bus passes for the over-60s, and surely the great increase in council spending in these years enabled them to subsidise many routes.
Trevor Hopper
Lewes, East Sussex
• Re the obituary of Mary Wilson (8 June), future PM Harold was not on that tennis court by chance. He actually joined Mary Baldwin’s club to make her acquaintance.
Godfrey Holmes
Withernsea, East Yorkshire
• Alec Issigonis, designer of Martin Rowson’s quintessentially British Morris Minor, was born in Ottoman Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey) of Greek and German ancestry and so today would potentially fall foul of the Home Office’s “hostile environment”.
Shawn Pearson
Bristol
• Never mind Heinz renaming salad cream (G2, 7 June), what about making it with free-range eggs? Our Co-op used to, but now the local supermarkets only have endless varieties of that greasy jollop, mayonnaise. Salad cream-wise, it’s a Heinz monoculture.
Robert Oulton
Godalming, Surrey
• Kate Spade (Front page, 6 June)? Anthony Bourdain (Front page, 9 June)? Who is out of touch – me or you?
Colin Hathway
Brigg, North Lincolnshire
• How unappetising the food looks in the Feast section now it’s printed on matt newsprint. Please bring back the inspiring, glossy photos, so that I can start cooking again.
Pat Ellacott
Waddington, Lancashire
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