I hope Frank DM Wilson was joking in recommending the building of a 500-metre-high tower in Waterloo and the replacement of the current South Bank buildings on a similar scale (Letters, 13 February). I live further upstream on the Thames at Vauxhall, and the jumble of high‑rises between here and Battersea is a solid reminder of how such developments are the very opposite of “inspiring” and bring nothing to our environment and quality of life. I note that he lives in Cambridge, where such nonsense is quite rightly kept at bay.
Liz Fuller
London
• Re Lola Okolosie’s article (Why are kids doing the ‘Brexit tackle’? They’re having fun at adults’ expense – and mocking our toxic politics, 14 February), not long ago we had lunch in a village pub in Ireland, near Cork. Among desserts on the menu was an item named “Brexit”. We asked what it was and were told: “It’s now our name for Eton mess.”
Marina Milmo
London
• Re your report (Michael Gove says no-fault evictions will be banned this year, 11 February), I hope that evictions where fault is proven will continue, specifically from Downing Street.
Rich Flower
Gloucester
• Having alienated Jewish, Muslim and environmental support in one week, Keir Starmer may be casting around for replacements. How about socialists? Just a thought.
Peter Griffith
Droitwich, Worcestershire
• At what point in the Labour party’s search for a defensible position on taxation, public investment and spending does fiscal prudence become indistinguishable from austerity?
William Wallace
Liberal Democrat, House of Lords
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