Thanks, Jeremy Corbyn, for making me feel like an utterly naive fool, after urging my first-time-voting twins that it’s worth voting for a party that will oppose a strong Brexit and protect workers’ rights (Report, 30 June). Sacking people for not agreeing: what a strong and stable example.
Elisabeth Young
Whitstable, Kent
• Your orgy of metrocentric remoaning (Letters, 30 June) overlooks once again the precariat, abandoned by socialists and liberals alike, who voted to end the mass free movement into the UK of poor east Europeans. Those leave voters aren’t racist or misinformed – they’re just ignored.
Chris Hughes
Leicester
• With reference to the competing claims of social mobility and inequality (Letters, 29 June), how about a triple lock on the minimum wage?
Graham Hamblin
Bromyard, Herefordshire
• When I was in Australia and New Zealand in 2004, they had already abolished the 1 and 2 cent coins (Cameron vetoed Osborne’s plan to abolish the 1p coin, 30 June). If a bill was $1.62, it was rounded down to $1.60, and if $1.63, rounded up to $1.65. We should do the same and get rid of these stupid low-value coins.
John Richards
Oxford
• In the category of nothing new under the sun (Is charcoal the new black? G2, 29 June), the Romans added charcoal to an early form of toothpaste and there’s a home encyclopedia recipe from the 1860s that uses ground charcoal in a homemade toothpaste.
Roy Kettle
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
• It is heresy surely for Richard Smyth to accuse goldfinches (Country diary, 30 June) of jockeying and bickering in obscure quarrels. Beautiful as they are, adult males share the same plumage pattern as female goldfinches and this, I feel, must be a major cause of misunderstanding.
John Irving Clarke
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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