I often read through G2 before the main paper, so first read Sam Wollaston’s review of Sunday night’s television production of The Handmaid’s Tale. He highlighted how the story’s line of the not so ordinary becoming the ordinary rings chillingly loud and true today. Then I turned to the front page and saw your photograph of two smiling young girls having their photo taken posing with two heavily armed policemen at the Great Manchester Run. Who thought doing that was a good idea? Very chilling.
Andrew McKeon
Otley, West Yorkshire
• It’s useful to be reminded that the general election is to be held on the 50th anniversary of A Whiter Shade of Pale topping the charts (Letters, 26 May). How very appropriate given that the song shares a major characteristic with the Tory manifesto: nobody has a clue what either is about.
Alan Healey
Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire
• What about Are You Experienced, the Jimi Hendrix Experience masterpiece that helped the summer of 1967 roll along? Ripe for a 50th anniversary set, too, with a book and set of outtakes.
Malcolm Stewart
Edinburgh
• I like the idea of the Marine Conservation Society’s “plastic challenge” (Could you cut out plastic from your weekly shop? One family tried, 27 May) . I have chosen Saturday as my first regular day to give up single-use plastic. One slight problem: as the Guardian insists on packaging its Weekend and Guide supplements in a plastic bag. I shall not be able to buy the paper on Saturday from now on. Sorry about that.
Richard Shipp
Presteigne, Powys
• It’s a bit worrying for the Church of England, I would think, when the former Archbishop warns against the leadership of a messiah (Williams warns against turning to ‘messianic’ leadership, 22 May).
Jane Ghosh
Bristol
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