So extremely rich people are stashing money away to avoid tax (Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful, 3 October). That’s news then?
Stephen Brunt
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
• A friend’s daughter who is a paramedic and drives an ambulance received a letter last week from a government minister, asking her to consider becoming a HGV driver. She has trained for several years to qualify as a paramedic. Who could replace her if she is tempted to switch?
John Boaler
Calne, Wiltshire
• Britain’s longest-running soap opera (Letters, 3 October)? Surely that’s the Tory party?
Adrian Brodkin
London
• Now that Wally the walrus has arrived in Iceland (Report, 1 October) on his way home to the Arctic, has anyone thought of interviewing him about his adventures in Europe? “The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things.”
Graham Warren
Coventry
• I still occasionally wear the silk blouse I wore in 1962 in which to get married (Letters, 1 October), but trousers? How come Julie Baker’s grey loons haven’t worn out? I can still wear the same size, but certainly not the same trousers as in the 60s and 70s.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
• At 75, I’m proud to say I can still get into the shoes I wore at 21.
David Prothero
Harlington, Bedfordshire
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