Imagine if you’re in hospital and the person examining you turns out not to be a doctor – but his mum is a doctor, or his cousin, or he went to the same school as a doctor. Four years’ training, £50,000 of student debt, over three years of working in pubs: how does a young actor, who went to the local comprehensive and who has no connections to the acting world, find their way in?
Debbie Smith
(Mother of a young, still hopeful actor), Eastbourne, East Sussex
• The only official member of both the Beatles and Rolling Stones was Billy Preston, not Eric Clapton (‘Yoko Ono was waiting for me – with two lawyers’, G2, 12 November). Preston played keyboards on several Beatles tracks and toured as a member of the Stones.
Bob Floyd
Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
• Following Alison Hardie’s letter (13 November), the Chinese war graves cemetery at Nolette, Noyelles-sur-Mer, near the mouth of the Somme, is worth a mention. Lest we forget, indeed.
Derek Long
Liverpool
• What a pity Vanessa Woodward’s “comedy goat” (Letters page picture, 15 November) was not put on the front page instead of the heart-sink photo of the PM. It surely would have cheered readers up – it did us!
Poppy Buchanan-Barker and Phil Barker
Newport-on-Tay, Fife
• To lose one Brexit secretary may be regarded as a misfortune, but to lose two looks like carelessness (Report, 15 November).
David Critchard
Exeter
• Clearly GB on the back of a car means “Gone Bonkers”.
John Cundill
London
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