Poor Theresa feels she has been misrepresented by the press (Show respect in Brexit talks, Tusk tells May, 5 May). I don’t imagine there’s anyone to the left of centre in the UK who has the faintest notion of how frustrating that must feel.
Mike Garnier
Bristol
• Media coverage of French election speeches should have provided an excellent opportunity for us to test our school French and go a little way towards lifting the shame of our national monoglottery. Infuriatingly, however, British TV channels permit us two seconds of French before the measured cadences of the orator are obliterated by an interpreter’s neutral drone. What is actually wrong with subtitles?
Richard Dawkins
Oxford
• I suspect your correspondent who expressed surprise at the suggestion of eating McVitie’s chocolate digestives with “white cheese” (Notes and queries, 4 May) has been misled. Fromage blanc is akin to yogurt and has little resemblance to the cheeses some of us happily eat with fruit cake or apple pie. It is a bit bland and frequently almost fat-free. It would be greatly improved by the addition of a chocolate digestive.
Wendy Law
Altrincham
• How sensible of the duke to retire so that he can read his well-deserved obituary notices while still alive (Report, 5 May).
John Saunders
Oxford
• My children call me by my first name, so I have always been Granny Lindy (Letters, passim). A friend’s 12-year-old grandson asked if he could call her Christine as “I’m too old to keep calling you Granny Two-Dogs”.
Lindy Hardcastle
Groby, Leicestershire
• My friend’s Jewish parents learned that their son’s mother-in-law had entered a Catholic convent to become a nun. They commented that now Jesus would be their “mechuten” (the masculine singular of “machatonim”).
Joe Locker
Surbiton, Surrey
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