Antony Beevor (G2, 30 May) ridicules the “ludicrous scene” in the film Darkest Hour of Churchill in the underground, “where he had never set foot in his life”. However, according to David Cannadine in Aspects of Aristocracy, Churchill did once get on the Circle line and “went helplessly round and round on it until, several hours later, a friend rescued him”.
John Murphy
Uddingston, South Lanarkshire
• Three cheers for Richard Madeley. Dismissing Gavin Williamson for refusing to answer a perfectly reasonable question was a public service that issued a warning to other slippery politicians (Report, 30 May). I hope it catches on across all media.
Les Bright
Exeter, Devon
• Once again Mahler dominates the Proms this year, with six of his symphonies being performed while those of other great composers are ignored. Not one of Mozart’s 41, Schubert’s nine or Dvořák’s nine Mendelssohn’s five are on the programme. Shame on the BBC.
Harry Jacobi
London
• Disappointing that Suzanne Moore (G2, 29 May) should lament that the Duchess of Sussex has been seen wearing light tights. She has chosen to dress in white from the time of her first engagement photos: it’s a colour she clearly likes, and she doesn’t strike me as inclined to “surrender” to “the law of the palace”. Is it equally “weird” for a white woman to wear dark tights, as I often do? I wonder what colour Prince Harry’s socks are, and who chooses them…
Clare Addison
Marston, Oxfordshire
• I hope I shall not have to go to Staples for a staple remover (Letters, 30 May). My uses for the Guardian are: reading it; lining the hens’ ark with it – what a loss the Berliner is; and rolling up pages for setting a fire in the grate. Staples are anathema to the latter two activities.
Judith McBrien
Saltash, Cornwall
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