Nigel Farage claims his £5m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne is to pay for his personal security (Nigel Farage faces inquiry over £5m gift from crypto billionaire, 13 May). As I was once offered work by a lookalike agency on the basis of our physical resemblance, and was recently approached by two people drinking beer out of cans who thought I was him, I feel some of that money should come to me: 20% and we’ll say no more about it?
Tom Stubbs
Surbiton, London
• Alex Hassell’s guiltiest pleasure is staying in his pyjamas “until way after the postman has come” (The Q&A, 16 May). If he lived round our way he might never need to change out of them as, if the postman does come, it is well into the afternoon.
Frank Cosgrove
Presteigne, Powys
• Faced with a very difficult problem, I once asked for advice from Harold Macmillan, then minister for housing and local government. He wrote: “Wait and see, watch and pray.” Within quite a short time the problem melted away (Letters, 15 May).
Gill Mulley
Saffron Walden, Essex
• Your article (Neanderthals used stone drills to treat cavities 59,000 years ago, tooth suggests, 13 May) raises an interesting question. Is the “oldest profession” in fact dentistry?
John O’Dwyer
Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire
• I used to like sitting on buses’ upstairs front seats (Letters, 13 May). But I have a recurring nightmare that I am driving the bus from the upper deck. Terrifying!
Lorna Chessum
Brighton
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