May I suggest an alternative Dad’s Army cast to Jonathan Freedland (Nigel Farage is the Captain Mainwaring of our time, 11 October)? For pomposity and delusion, Michael Gove is Mainwaring, Ed Miliband a sidelined Sgt Wilson and Boris Johnson a suitably buffoon-like Cpl Jones. And Farage? He would be an ideal Warden Hodges, always blustering and wrong on most things.
Jim Samson
Cockermouth, Cumbria
• Lucy Mangan’s comment on the conversation between David Cameron and the Queen just hit the note between those who show off their status and those who absolutely take it for granted (Notebook, 10 October). Not sure which is better but her expectation that Queenie might well be on the side of those plunged into desperation by this government’s so-called budget balancing exercise was amusing and could well be right.
I could nearly forgive her for expecting her mother to do her washing twice a week (‘We live perpetually on the edge of chaos’, G2, 7 October). Get a grip, Lucy, the politics is personal.
Margaret Prosser
House of Lords
• Football managers often speak about the need to maintain the Status Quo? Are they, when not touring, employed as football consultants (Letters, 11 October)?
Kevin Caveney
Glastonbury
• The still from Wonga’s puppet TV adverts (Wonga customers wait to see if they are part of troubled firm’s big loans write-off, 11 October) reminds us of one of Nicholas Parsons’ (In praise of…, 11 October) less commendable diversifications: he did the voiceover for them.
Dr Alex May
Manchester
