Travelling through Heathrow to Portugal with my Irish passport at the height of IRA activity, an immigration officer told me not to come back (The perils of an African passport, 11 September).
Geraldine Blake
Worthing, West Sussex
• A correspondent recently wrote that he thought the Guardian was no fun any more. Friday’s letter from Tim Grollman stating that in the light of Jamie’s Sugar Rush he hoped not to see another emollient letter from the head of advocacy for AB Sugar, immediately followed by another emollient letter from the head of advocacy for AB Sugar, made me laugh out loud.
Pete Spencer
Northampton
• Nicholas de Jongh is absolutely correct about Philip Hope-Wallace (Letters, 10 September), who was a brilliant, amusing and sharply perceptive critic of both opera and drama. Some will remember his dismissive review of William Vincent Wallace’s opera, Maritana, a performance also attended by the Duke of Edinburgh. An alert Guardian reader wrote in: “Hope Philip liked Wallace more than Philip Hope-Wallace.”
Meirion Bowen
London
