Your pictures of Rachel Reeves in various hard hats, such as the one in Saturday’s paper, threaten to erase the memory of photos of Theresa and Philip May exiting church. Perhaps you could furnish us with a photo of Ms Reeves explaining to a group of benefit recipients why she proposed to cut their annual incomes by thousands of pounds, an encounter which would produce yet another hard-hat photo opportunity.
Roderick MacFarquhar
Edinburgh
• Will UK universities follow France’s Aix-Marseille University in offering US-based researchers threatened by Trump’s crackdown on academia a “safe place” to undertake their work (Report, 17 April)? Will the government support such an initiative, or will they worry about upsetting the possibility of a UK-US trade deal?
Rhiannon Jones
Sheffield
• I’d like the government to explain how we got into a situation where the wronged party pays the fines of those who broke the law (Water companies’ pollution incidents in England increased by 30% in 2024, 16 April).
Marc Smith-Evans
Bagabag, the Philippines
• Things can get better (The death of customer service: why has it become so, so bad?, 17 April). The Passport Office recently renewed my passport in under a week. New photos in the post office booth on Monday. New passport delivered on Friday. Back of the net.
Jim Chalmers
New Brighton, Merseyside
• Six pages on skincare in your Saturday magazine, but no mention of my own cleansing regime for the last 69 years: warm water and soap.
Mike Harrison
Bath
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