A decade ago a former mayor of London threatened to lie down in front of the bulldozers to stop Heathrow expansion. It obviously worked. Time for Sadiq to repeat Boris’s threat (Heathrow submits ‘shovel-ready’ plans for third runway, 1 August)?
David Duell
Durham
• In his article comparing Starmer with Attlee, Martin Kettle asserts that there are “echoes of Attlee’s agenda in Starmer’s” (Critics say Starmer is no Attlee – and they’re right. Labour must look to the future, not the past, 31 July). Perhaps he could also tell us what that agenda is.
Alasdair Macdonald
Glasgow
• Your article (Readers’ favourite UK waterside pubs, 1 August) features not one establishment in Northern Ireland, Wales or Scotland. So that’ll be favourite English waterside pubs.
Patrick Hadfield
Edinburgh
• Re the report (Trump to build ‘beautiful’ $200m ballroom at White House, 1 August), surely a more appropriate extension, and an entirely fitting legacy, would be the world’s bigliest orangery.
Mark de Brunner
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
• The Edinburgh festival – where better to scotch the pun (The best joke award has gone. Is the Edinburgh fringe taking all the pun out of comedy?, 30 July)?
John Lydon
Leeds
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