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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Letters

How come Aussies escape deportation?

Passengers arriving at the UK border, at Gatwick airport.
Passengers arriving at the UK border, at Gatwick airport. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

It seems to be only black immigrants who are questioned (Man in UK for 57 years loses job for lack of ID papers, 10 April). I was a Commonwealth immigrant in 1965 – from Australia. Have any Aussies, New Zealanders, Canadians, or white South Africans been threatened with deportation?
Marika Sherwood
Oare, Kent

• I wish Sarah Boseley’s excellent briefing on the cost of drugs (9 April) had included information about the profits the pharma companies make on specific medicines.
Anna Rehin
Lewes, East Sussex

• Yes, £22 to see “78 staggering Monets” (Letters, 10 April) is a great offer. Of course, the cost is considerably higher for the 70% of the population living outside London.
Phil Rhoden
Kidderminster, Worcestershire

• What a delight that Country diary is tail-ended by Clifford Harper’s charming vignettes (I suspect in scraperboard). They remind me of the glory days of the Radio Times in the 1950s when, under the enlightened editorship of Douglas Williams, the pages were filled with art (not photos) by such luminaries as CW Bacon, Dorothea Braby, Eric Frazer, et al.
Penelope Woolfitt
London

• I presume that the advice (Health, 9 April) to avoid a nightcap because, shock horror, it may lead to a visit to the bathroom at night, is aimed at your younger readers? The rest of us are well acquainted with that particular path.
Colin Barr
Ulverston, Cumbria

• Regarding Tom Lehrer being still with us at 90 (Letters, 10 April), presumably “We Will All Go Together When We Go”?
Adrian Brodkin
London

• Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com

• Read more Guardian letters – click here to visit gu.com/letters

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