Strange. I used my Steve Bell Jeremy Corbyn mug for the first time today (Letters, 25 November). The china was strong but fine enough to make an excellent cup of tea. I thought the tea leaves were going to give trouble, but once they had been put through the strainer they calmed down and blended together to produce a satisfyingly strong and flavoursome brew. I think they realised that by uniting they could better support tea leaves everywhere and were far more likely to defeat those nasty, bitter coffee grounds.
Veronica Porter
London
• As the EU’s free movement ideal falls foul of those who take advantage of it (Fears over EU border controls as Paris ringleader confirmed dead, 20 November), perhaps Robert Frost was right in his poem Mending Wall: “Good fences make good neighbours.”
Peter Clement
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
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