I was delighted (and not a little surprised) to see my aunt Rose depicted as “an elderly woman in Trafalgar Square” in an article about the Imperial War Museum’s exhibition Peace Signs (The art of outrage, G2, 31 March). Rose Bagg, of Bounds Green, north London, originally Rose O’Neill from Weymouthin Dorset, would have thought it only natural that her opinions should be still in demand – they were strongly held. However, she would certainly be furious that they were still relevant and needed today.
Patrick O’Neill
Eastleigh, Hampshire
• Nigel Lindsay (Letters, 1 April) asks if anyone can explain why banks are rescued but steel industry not? The explanation is quite simple. The representation of ex-public schoolboys on blast furnace platforms is woefully inadequate. (This is a blessing as given their air of confidence in what they are doing as against actually knowing could prove dangerous.)
Martin Jeeves
Cardiff
• To the requests for the right of legal access to caves and rivers (Letters, 31 March), I’d like to add the right to unpowered flight from designated access land. Foot-launched hang-glider and paraglider pilots have a right to walk on and fly above such land, but are prohibited from actually taking off. Once again the English approach to the countryside of “everything is banned except that which is specifically allowed” seems to triumph.
Peter Thompson
Great Longstone, Derbyshire
• If the Royal Society for Public Health really wants to improve the nation’s sleep quality (Report, 1 April), it should advise councils about the effects of LED “daylight” street lighting, which, not surprisingly, wakes people during the night.
Tricia Cusack
Birmingham
• I am a little younger than David Buckingham (Letters, 31 March) but shared his shock, also around the age of 11, that Richmal Crompton was female. It was nearly as awful as discovering, almost simultaneously, that Captain WE Johns’ other great hero – Worrals- was actually a heroine. Hopefully David and I are over such chauvinism now.
Mike Crisp
Hornchurch
• Like waiting to hear the first cuckoo, it’s a sure sign of the impending spring when you find ageing Guardian readers reminiscing fondly about their days in San Serriffe (Letters, 2 April).
Ian Taylor
Helsby, Cheshire
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