I think I would live a long, happy and healthy life if I lived in a comfy warm home, surrounded by a retinue of workers who served me the choicest nutritious food, which enabled me to make love on the wing (Scientists target queen bees in search of secret to longer life, 7 April).
Sam White
Lewes, East Sussex
• It’s good to know that actors are actually encouraged to keep their fake wonky teeth and they are not filed away as the property of the studio (‘Jonah Hill keeps his teeth in a safe’: meet Hollywood’s top special-effects dentist, 7 April). Here in the UK, I met a fell runner who had trashed her hip and wanted to keep the knobbly part as a handle for a novelty walking stick. The surgeon refused. “But it’s mine, it was part of my body,” the runner said. “Not any more. It’s surgical waste and, by law, I have to send it for incineration.”
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
• Donald Trump could be our new hero. At a stroke, his trade tariffs have implemented the green agenda on a truly global scale. World recession is probably the only effective route to reducing human activity, energy consumption and resultant global warming. It seems a shame, though, that Trump’s style appears a bit crass.
Bill Adamson
Cortona, Italy
• Given the chaos resulting from Donald Trump’s recent self-aggrandising actions, I recommend that we re-envisage Uncle Sam as Uncle Sham or Uncle Shame, referring to him plaintively in a sans tariff font. I look forward to seeing a new pictorial likeness.
Prof Anthony J Bron
Oxford
• All the agonising over whether yourself or others are working class (Letters, 4 April) is easily resolved by just identifying and naming the other main class – the business class.
Eddie McDonnell
Manchester
• The first swallows of 2025 arrived in our area of north Pembrokeshire at the weekend (Letters, 30 March). This is a few days later than usual and coincided with the first burst of blackthorn blossom.
Charlie Mason
Glogue, Pembrokeshire
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