Following Castro’s death, perhaps we can now acknowledge the role that British-made aircraft played in defending Cuba from the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion. The Cuban Air Force Hawker Sea Furies were instrumental in preventing the full invasion force from landing, which was the last time Sea Furies were ever used in action. A remaining plane is displayed at the Bay of Pigs Museo Giron.
Martin Griffies
Bristol
• “British remainers must be EU reformers,” writes Martin Kettle (2 December). We all saw what David Cameron’s fundamental reform effort came up with. The EU isn’t reformable. And does he seriously think that the EU will take a blind bit of notice of us once we’ve crawled back?
Simon Hunter
Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire
• John Redwood writes “when we have our own fishing policy we could move back to being net exporters” (Opinion, 1 December). Easy to see the holes in that.
Harold Mozley
York
• Shirazeh Houshiary put a Christmas tree upside down in the Tate Britain stairwell, painted the roots gold and designated it “art” (Front-page picture, 2 December). Obviously Tate Britain has a colony of cats. I’ve always understood the reason for hanging Christmas trees from the ceiling is to stop cats climbing into the branches.
David Hurry
Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex
• My experience was rather different from Chris Seidel (Letters, 1 December). It was my first wife who hid behind the Guardian at the breakfast table. I had the temerity to suggest she might share the newspaper. Her hands moved from the sides of the paper to the top, either side of the centre fold. She tore the paper in two and handed me one half. We separated, like the newspaper, shortly afterwards. Great style, though.
Andrew McCulloch
Collingham, Nottinghamshire
• Saturday’s Guardian is a great disappointment as there is no Suguru. Please find a little corner. I really, really miss it.
Jan Godfrey
Esher, Surrey
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