Full marks for irony: in a supplement devoted to employee wellbeing (Love your job, 11 February), British American Tobacco appears as a “certified top employer”. Presumably because they discourage smoking in the workplace. And quite high marks for calibration of the unmeasurable: “Workers in companies that support healthy habits are three-and-a-half times more creative.”
Richard Little
Field Broughton, Cumbria
• I looked in vain for any reference to joining a trade union in your Top Employers Institute sponsored supplement.
Paul Martin
London
• There is another point to be made about my mother, Elizabeth Longford, other than the excellence of her Wellington (Letters, 13 February). Her first biography, Victoria R.I., never eclipsed in my unprejudiced opinion, was written when she was nearly 60; the last volume of Wellington appeared when she was 67. In other words, she was a late starter. This was an encouragement to many other women at the time, as several correspondents told me after her death.
Antonia Fraser
London
• Ofsted might listen to Brenda Crowe (Letters, 9 February), a pioneer of the Pre-school Playgroup movement, who recently (age 95) wrote of current education policy: “Nobody grew by being measured.”
Anna Ford
London
• Presumably not in Wantage or Maidenhead (UK government considers single secure jail unit for Islamic terrorists, 13 February)?
Colin Richards
Spark Bridge, Cumbria
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