If Paul Keleher QC (Letters, 16 December) had read the Lords judgment to which he refers with rather more care, he would have noted that, having defined an ethnic group in terms of a number of characteristics, it went on to add: “a group defined by reference to enough of these characteristics would be capable of including converts, for example, people who marry into the group”. It is the ethnic group that is defined by certain characteristics, not converts like Rachel Dolezal, provided they are accepted as such by the ethnic group in question.
Peter Newsam
Thornton Dale, North Yorkshire
• As people who don’t cater for large groups at Christmas, we’ve been serving guinea fowl and venison for over 20 years now (Big turkeys are so last year, 21 December) and never thought we’d be setting a trend. We can also recommend pheasant, capon or wild boar as alternatives to turkey – all sourced locally, of course.
Philip and Margaret Morey
Thelwall, Cheshire
• You know you are not winning in the run-up to Christmas when your artificial Christmas tree starts to shed its needles.
Sheila Rigby
Bognor Regis, West Sussex
• Your Jimmy Hill obituary (21 December) failed to mention the ongoing homage in Viz that regularly conceals caricatures of the great man throughout the comic. I believe they still award pencils to some of the lucky readers who spot him.
Steve Vanstone
Wolverhampton
• Was most alarmed this morning to see that Guardian Letters has moved to the right (22 December).
Mike Whitaker
North Petherton, Somerset
• Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
