First we were asked to pick up litter in honour of one of the Queen’s two birthdays. Now we are to be encouraged to get drunk (Pubs to open late for Queen’s 90th birthday, the guardian.online, 23 March) on the other. What a surprise that it also coincides with some football matches.
Martin Jeanneret
Newhaven, East Sussex
• Perhaps George Osborne actually was in the Commons on Monday (Report, 22 March), it was just that he was wearing a low visibility jacket.
Malcolm Rivers
Isleworth, Middlesex
• The fair solution to the controversy over payment of female tennis players (Editorial, 23 March)? Abolish the men’s event and replace it with an open tournament. The best players, regardless of sex, would then be free to compete for the higher prize money.
Richard Dawkins
Oxford
• As Karl Marx and Herbert Spencer are opposite one another in Highgate Cemetery, I was interested to see that Asa Briggs (Obituary, 19 March) wrote a history of Marks & Spencer. I supposed it was an opportunity he couldn’t resist.
Phil Rhoden
Kidderminster, Worcestershire
• I trust the helpless, wounded woman whose photo was used to illustrate the front page on the Brussels attacks (23 March) gave you her permission – and was helped by the photographer?
Chris Hardy
London
• So “the right draws the eye more than the left” (Letters, 23 March). May I make a gentle plea then for the letters page to be restored to its rightful place…
Mary Gameson
Norwich
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