The multiple climbdowns of the past day or two show the continuing potency of investigative journalism (Amber Rudd ‘sorry’ for appalling treatment of Windrush-era citizens, 17 April). Thank you, Amelia Gentleman, your dogged pursuit of justice is the year’s standout event on the domestic political front.
Les Bright
Exeter, Devon
• The architect of the policy, and the current incumbent/enforcer are both sorry. How sorry? Resignation sorry?
Jonathan Ainsworth
Sheffield
• One of the scariest episodes of the wonderful 1970s BBC sci-fi series Doomwatch featured a plastic-eating virus escaped from a laboratory (Researchers make plastic-eating mutant enzyme better – by accident, 17 April). Perhaps we should re-form the Department for the Observation and Measurement of Scientific Work?
Eileen Kay
Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire
• Your correspondent wondering about quinoa consumers in Wilmslow should be reminded that Cheshire has long been regarded as a southern English county but based in the north (Thatcher forecast to return in 2276, Letters, 18 April).
Jack Harrison
Tyn y Gongl, Isle of Anglesey
• Congratulations to Tom Jaine on smuggling in “born and brought up” in his obituary of the TV cook Zena Skinner (17 April). He has done well to evade the style enforcer who usually imposes on all contributors that awful Americanism “raised” – a term bringing to mind cattle and cereal crops rather than young human beings.
RP Blows
London
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