Jess Cartner-Morley (Wang brings sport and scuba chic to high street, 18 October) curiously ignores the similarity between H&M’s latest collection, and George Osborne’s S&M outfit, designed and oft-employed by Steve Bell. Surely the defining influence?
Eddie Dougall
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
• Recent activity in the fossil banks would suggest an appropriate name for the current geological era (Letters, 17 October) might be the Rapacious Period - known perhaps colloquially, as the Boracic?
Chris Osborne
Nottingham
• I don’t recall Lord Freud (Report, 16 October) raising objections when the party closed down the Remploy factories because they needed subsidies.
David Redshaw
Gravesend, Kent
