Your editorial (22 April) recognises the longing for a fan-ownership mutual model for football clubs. Tens of thousands of NHS patients are finding their GP practices taken over by the US giant Centene Corporation. What real say do they have? Primary healthcare may not be as important as football, but it is a matter of life and death.
Tom Lake
Reading
• Your report describes Anthony Hopkins winning the Academy Award for best actor as an “upset” that “surprised” the pundits (26 April). No surprise, however, to the estimable Peter Bradshaw, who opined last week (23 April) that Hopkins should win, and would win.
Mike Pender
Cardiff
• We “wait for” the Guardian (Letters, 26 April). Since our one and only newsagent stopped morning deliveries, we pay for it to be brought by the postperson. It does not arrive until about 11.30am (and not at all on bank holidays). My husband, who prioritises keeping to his routine over being abreast of the news, saves the main part to read the following morning.
Terri Kelly
Cloughton, North Yorkshire
• Computer programmers using Fortran in the 1970s and 80s adopted the strategy of dropping vowels when naming things long before TikTok stars and YouTubers (Standard Life Aberdeen to change name to Abrdn, 26 April). Variable names were limited to six characters, so vowels were the first to go.
Mike Lowcock
Sandbach, Cheshire
• Abrdn – clearly run by wnkrs.
Steve Fleming
Claygate, Surrey
