If we do as your article suggests (Cutting back on final drink of day ‘could improve brain health’, 4 March) and do not have the last drink of the night, then the penultimate drink will become the last. We will therefore have to forgo that one too. What was originally the antepenultimate drink will now be the last. The only two possible ways to follow this advice are not to start drinking at all or else not to stop.
Chris du Feu
Beckingham, Nottinghamshire
• I was pleased to read that skipping the last drink of the evening could improve my brain health. Although my brain is extremely healthy, I have nevertheless decided to adopt this policy to ensure that the previous seven drinks of the evening have no detrimental effect.
David Hoult
Stockport, Greater Manchester
• Vladimir Putin’s crimes have prompted some restaurants to stop serving poutine, the “delicacy of potato fries, cheese curds and gravy” (Report, 6 March). But, like the pursuit of illicit Russian monies, this step should surely have been taken long before the current geopolitical enormities?
Bryn Hughes
Wrexham
• Libby Purves is spot-on in criticising the BBC over the removal of offensive content (Report, 8 March). We cannot and should not sanitise the past – we have to learn from it.
Ian Ferguson
Pickering, North Yorkshire
• Regarding praying for peace (Letters, 7 March), did it work?
Jenny Haynes
Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire
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