Kenneth Clarke in Laura Kuenssberg’s documentary on Brexit (Last night’s TV, G2, 9 August) commented that “the referendum result was not simply about Europe”. Exactly so. It occurs to me that the success of the leave campaign’s bus message (“We send the EU £350m a week – let’s fund our NHS instead”) had little to do with Europe but indicates the high priority the electorate gives to more spending on the NHS. Our government might do well to recognise this.
Derek Gambell
Bromley, Kent
• No suggestions for an affordable holiday in the UK (Any answers?, Money, 13 August) but a question. Would you have published the sentence “if your useless husband had failed to book anything …” if the words had been “useless wife”? What does the style guide say?
Jennifer Henley
London
• Can it be true that one of the founders of this restaurant, where queueing is the norm, is named Wai Ting? Or is Marina O’Loughlin having us on (Weekend, 13 August)?
John Pilsbury
Wrexham
• There’s no need to go abroad to taste weird-flavoured ice-cream (Cheesy ice-cream takes Czech town by storm, 10 August). I tried a Blue Vinney cone overlooking Chesil Beach in Dorset a few years ago. I love blue cheese; I adore proper ice-cream; but one mouthful of this disgusting concoction was quite enough. Still, it helped me get my own back on the thieving seagull race. A hungry bird swallowed it whole and I swear there was a look of surprise on its face for a full two minutes. The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch, eh?
Caroline Thomas
London
• Ian Watson (Letters, 13 August) is fully entitled to his controversial views on the quality of my singing but, just in case anyone is wondering, I would like to make clear that I am not the Mike Pender who was lead singer with the Searchers in the 60s.
Mike Pender
Cardiff
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