Your report on the pay of Britain’s male bosses (8 August) beggars belief. I’m pleased that the prime minister is taking action. Meanwhile, those named could answer criticism positively by offering large proportions of their wealth to hospitals, education, medical and scientific research, not to mention the boost they could give to projects in the arts. Their response will be awaited with interest.
Meirion Bowen
London
• Our “little old ladies” art group must be old enough now to concentrate on our individuality (Back to school, G2, 8 August). Of course, at 75, my Bauhaus teaching, via Victor Pasmore, is terrible old hat. I agree, students aren’t taught much at art school these days but Grayson Perry’s doing OK – why doesn’t he set up an art academy actually teaching conceptual art? Otherwise all those next-generation oldies won’t know how to do it.
Rosemary Millar
Cambridge
• Suzanne Moore’s piece about Leonard Cohen’s graceful letter to Marianne Ihlen (Opinion, 9 August) brought back memories of the time I saw him in concert in Cardiff in 2008. I have never seen a man reduce so many women to tears simultaneously as when he sang So Long, Marianne. Mr Cohen was truly born with the gift of a golden voice.
Mike Pender
Cardiff
• Euromoney isn’t the only keeper of the Fleet Street news flame (Letters, 9 August). The Law Society Gazette, with daily email and weekly print circulations well into six figures, operates within a stone’s throw. We do our best to keep the Fleet Street watering holes in business, too.
Michael Cross
News editor, Law Society Gazette, Bell Yard
• Nice picture of “Manchester’s new tram” (Report, 8 August). Manchester’s Metrolink has been up and running since 1992 but perhaps the news has only just penetrated the “new” M25.
Ken Ward
Crewe, Cheshire
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