Ever since your feature extolling the virtues of travel to the republic of San Serriffe I’ve awaited the Guardian’s 1 April spoof with all of the excitement of a small child on Christmas Day. This year’s effort, I’m afraid, was a disappointment. To have a front-page article in which it is claimed that the government wants to “secure a long-term future for Port Talbot and for other steel plants in the UK” is lazy journalism at its very worst. That said, your scoop revelation that the Duke of Edinburgh is to lead the royal family’s campaign against Brexit must have taken some careful negotiating with the palace. At last there is a figure who can take on the bigoted, narrow-minded, xenophobic shower that is Messrs Johnson, Duncan Smith, Farage et al. What chance a televised debate in which the duke faces them off?
Mark Lyons
Ashford, Middlesex
• A revival in jukeboxes, a call for a national sleep strategy, a poet who runs courses on “Ear Training for Poets”… I give up. Which one was your April fool story?
Alan Cleaver
Whitehaven, Cumbria
• Now Prince Philip is to lead the call for the UK to stay in the EU, can we also expect him to speak out about the practices of the dastardly tax haven San Serriffe, which have not been addressed for 38 years?
Peter Skyte
London
• I am shocked to learn that the Guardian has a royal correspondent. Cancel my subscription immediately.
Peter Caswell
Warrington
• I thought the first “crime-fighter cat” was a close second.
Gwen Mathews
Bulwick, Northamptonshire
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