Nesrine Malik (Opinion, 8 February) reminds us that Jacob Rees-Mogg is an exponent of an old tradition that recommends being polite and well turned-out if you want to make an impact as a revolutionary or a reactionary. Since his natural habitat appears to be the 1950s, it is worth recalling the smooth-spoken and sophisticated conman Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, played by Peter Sellers in The Goon Show, who was forever advocating mad capitalist schemes which contributed to the impoverishment of Neddie Seagoon.
Geoff Reid
Bradford
• Although Robert Frost is a good example of a late starter in poetry (It’s never too late, G2, 7 February), Amy Clampitt would have been my choice. Her first collection, The Kingfisher, appeared when she was 63 and changed the landscape of American verse. Even Frost didn’t manage that.
John Greening
St Neots, Cambridgeshire
• So, legless, crotchless jeans are the new streetwear (G2, 7 February). We older readers have wearing them for years. We call them denim skirts.
Hilary Patrick
Edinburgh
• You report (7 February) a halving of hedgehog deaths on roads since 2001, and that some people infer from this and other records that there are fewer hedgehogs these days. But maybe hedgehogs are learning not to cross roads, or at least to look left and right and left again before crossing?
Anthony Lawton
Market Harborough, Leicestershire
• A cross-cultural treat at last year’s Scarborough beer festival – giant yorkshire puddings filled with curry sauce (Letters, 8 February). Come north for gastronomic innovation.
Roger Osborne
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
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