I hate to ride to the rescue of Cameron and his government (Merkel warns UK heading for ‘point of no return’ on EU, 3 November), but I wonder whether the solution to his problem with immigration from the EU might be found in the treaty of Rome itself. According to the European commission, Article 45 of the treaty on the Functioning of the European Union says free movement is “subject to limitations justified on grounds of public policy, public security or public health”.
Martin Platt
London
• The poppy installation (Letters, 3 November) is not the significant phase. It is the worldwide dispersal after 11 November. Each poppy will be discovered and even revered for years to come and the true memorial aspect of this project will become obvious.
Donald Lee
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
• Barely a week before mourning the dead on Armistice Day, it’s two-faced how people will get together on bonfire night to celebrate religious oppression, betrayal, torture of prisoners and death. Britain should stop making light of the execution of a scapegoat. Fawkes isn’t the bad guy behind 5 November.
Emilie Lamplough
Trowbridge, Wiltshire
• Paul Mason (G2, 3 November) says whenever he wants to stop himself being too Marxist he thinks about Shakespeare. Small world – whenever I want to stop myself being too Shakespearean I think about Marx.
Professor Keith Graham
Author, Karl Marx - Our Contemporary
• The fact that a pop singer had a spider living in her ear is worthy of a story on page five of the Guardian precisely why (Report, 3 November)?
Glenn Hackney
Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
• If, as you report (Feminist T-shirt campaign in trouble over claims garment workers paid 62p an hour, 3 November), those T-shirts cost £45 surely they should read, “This is what a mug looks like”?
Martin Jeeves
Cardiff
