I have no time for Lord Sewel whatsoever, but I would like to point out that George Osborne included income from drugs and prostitution in the GDP figures in an effort to make them look better. In that case Lord Sewel might just be helping “massage” the GDP figures (Sewel faces investigation after cocaine video forces resignation, 27 July).
Simon Gosden
Rayleigh, Essex
• Michele Hanson (A certain age, G2, 28 July), who is missing the tax disc in her car windscreen, may like to do what I and many others have done and get, for £4, a tax and MOT reminder disc from taxdiscreminder.com, which was set up by a 13-year-old schoolboy.
Michael Robinson
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
• Thank you for the photograph of Bamburgh Castle “on a gloriously sunny day” (Letters page, 28 July). Those of us taking our summer holidays here this week are finding views of the castle to be more “visible through the persistent rain”. Still lovely, but the overcoat is getting more use than expected.
Paul Veitch
Newcastle upon Tyne
• No review of a post-punk concept album (What’s the big idea?, G2, 24 July) is complete without reference to the Duckworth Lewis Method’s eponymous first LP in 2009, reputedly the first Irish concept album about cricket.
Liz Fuller
London
• If none of the six species of gull found in Britain is a seagull (Letters, 27 July), then what is a seagull and where is it found? They do exist. The dictionary says so.
John Batts
Banbury, Oxfordshire
• There are certainly seagulls in Liverpool, although I didn’t know what bird was being referred to when I moved up here over 60 years ago, as it rhymed with eagles.
Jim Grindle
Formby, Merseyside
