Your editorial (3 June) advises that this month Philip Green will have to face MPs on two Commons committees to explain why he lifted millions of pounds of assets from BHS. Doubtless Green will give a well briefed account of himself – and leave the committee room laughing all the way to the bank.
Janet Wilson
Newcastle upon Tyne
• Is this the same Giles Fraser (Loose canon, 3 June) who has decided to vote leave in the EU referendum? I agree with all he said in this most recent column, eg “Border controls have always been racist in character … locking in our wealth and keeping mosques out of the Cotswolds” Surely this “migrant crisis” is the central plank of the Brexiters. So why has he decided to join them and vote leave?
Trixie Latter
London
• The question that must arise in the mind of anyone who has served in the army on reading about the Deepcut scandal (Vulnerable teens left to sink or swim in charged environment, 4 June) is: who was the commanding officer at the time? And what has happened to him?
Michael Howard
Hungerford
• Despite metrication and regardless of actual width, a side or back alley in Hull has always been known as a “tenfoot” (Letters, 4 June). Somewhere one can bool one’s tansad, as they say in ’ull.
Ken Starkey
London
• Samuel Johnson’s wife Elizabeth, known as Tetty (Letters, 2 June), is buried in Bromley parish churchyard. She is the eponym of Tetty Way, a little street by the church.
Violet Pole
Cefn Cribwr, Mid Glamorgan
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if BBC radio and TV followed the example of Marks & Spencer in getting rid of meaningless background music (Opinion, 3 June)?
Ralph Blumenau
London
