“Delivery, delivery, delivery” is the politics of online shopping (Keir Starmer may have just served up the worst political slogan of all time, 2 September). You order something you desperately want, take a leap of faith in the courier, the tracking information is baffling, the wrong parcel is delivered, your parcel is thrown over the hedge a week later, it’s damaged and unrecognisable; you lack the will to re-order.
Helen Datson (with apologies to our efficient local couriers)
Spelsbury, Oxfordshire
• Re Simon Hattenstone’s article on the “worst slogan”: what on earth happened to Change?
David Morriss
London
• I agree with your letter writer that runner beans have certainly been tricky this year (27 August) but at least my five-year-old olive tree is covered in fruit.
Ross Balzaretti
Nottingham
• After your correspondence on planting pages of publications with different vegetables (2 September), presumably the Lancet is best for pulses.
Adrian Brodkin
London
• On matching newspapers to crops, dare I say the Sun is necessary for all of them?
John Evans
Chalford Hill, Gloucestershire
• What infuriates me most about energy drinks (‘No place in children’s hands’: under-16s in England to be banned from buying energy drinks, 2 September) is that the beverages never seem to give those who drink them sufficient energy to take their empty cans to the bin.
John Lovelock
Bristol
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