The government cuts, cuts, cuts, and underfunds schools and special education needs provision, and then the authorities are surprised when home education numbers rise (Councils in England report 34% rise in elective home education, 24 November)? Your headline might better have read: “34% increase in dedicated parents mopping up government failings”.
Clare Quarman
Windsor, Berkshire
• It was impossible to watch the prime minister’s speech (The politics sketch, 22 November) without being reminded of David Brent’s motivational speech to a similar audience of stony-faced business people in The Office.
Andrew Hope
Oxford
• Repatriation of the looted Greek sculptures (Parthenon marbles should never have been removed, Boris Johnson wrote, 23 November) would surely prompt the headline: “Johnson has lost his marbles”.
David Feintuck
Lewes, East Sussex
• John Beck asks for suggestions of a broadcaster that holds power to account (Letters, 24 November). Channel 4 News does just that, repeatedly.
Rod Warrington
Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire
• Like many readers (Letters, 24 November), I have some elderly foodstuffs in my cupboard, including a tin of duck cassoulet, bought in Paris in the 1990s. I plan to eat it before I die. Probably just before.
Liz Fuller
London
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