Surely the green, white and purple of the suffragettes as an alternative for Labour’s pink bus (Letters, 17 February)?
Kevin McGrath
Harlow, Essex
• As well as being disgusted by the actions of Chelsea fans on the Paris Metro (Report, 19 February), it was also disheartening to see no one supporting the man and his right to board the train. Research says this happens often. We need to change.
Wendy Higgs
London
• While hanging out the laundry in a balmy temperature of 14C, my attention was captured by a bumblebee feasting on our crocuses. A reader’s record?
Steve Richards
Bath
• The inhabitants of Wiltshire enjoy french fried potatoes. After all, they have the Devizes for Chippenham.
Jason Hill
Stoke-on-Trent
• About eight years ago when visiting the library of the Linnean Society in London, the librarian said the future collection would be diminished by the demise of letter-writing and the reliance on email between scientists and academics (Letters, 18 February).
Ralph Gordon
London
• At the Saffron Walden Quaker school I attended values were taught indirectly (‘Sometimes the law is wrong’, 17 February), since lessons included opportunity for discussion. Teachers also embodied them and they were evident in school policy. Mine was a musical school where choirs and orchestras were another potent behavioural influence; there was no place in the corridors where the sound of music could not faintly be heard. In such ways universal human values were constantly presented to the nonconscious mind, which is of far greater capacity than the conscious – and through which we learn.
Grethe Hooper Hansen
Bath
• Eight striking new postage stamps about British inventors appear prominently (19 February) but their designer is not credited. Surely he/she should be?
David Gentleman
London
