It is not surprising to read that the chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser has seen his pay double (Reckitt chief lands £23m pay packet, 5 April). As the producer of both Nurofen and Durex, the company wins sales either way.
David Collins
Kidderminster, Worcestershire
• You devote an editorial to social mobility (8 April), and yet again those two crucial, loaded, embarrassing words “private education” are absent from your analysis. A serious left-of-centre paper cannot go on ducking the issue.
David Kynaston
New Malden, Surrey
• I note in your article headed “US military christens self-driving Sea Hunter warship” (8 April) that the warship in question has been “christened” rather than named. Perhaps it is to be deployed in a crusade?
Eoin Holmes
Westport, County Mayo, Ireland
• Re “Monster black holes discovered” (7 April), perhaps they could be used as tax havens?
Ken Phillips
Chorley, Lancashire
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