Articles and letters (31 October) pointing out the harmful gaps in budget funding have still omitted a key service, namely youth services, where local council spending last year in England was 73% less than in 2010-11. These services will also now suffer the double whammy of increased national insurance contributions. I presumed the council cuts are because young people do not have the vote, but I am not sure why they miss out on inclusion in the Guardian.
Don Macdonald
London
• I was shocked to see this anatomical area referred to as “down there” (Everything you ever wanted to know about vaginas … but were too afraid to Google, 2 November). Anyone who has ever worked in a GP surgery knows that the correct terminology is “down below”.
Dr Carol Cooper
Crewkerne, Somerset
• Your Saturday magazine front cover (2 November) had “Alan Bennett at 90” and “Vagina myths, busted”. Variety is the spice of life.
Toby Wood
Peterborough
• Nauseating though it is to be confronted by the face of Boris Johnson staring out from his book cover, at least in a shop that I visited on Thursday it had been placed in the history section. Let’s hope it stays there.
Dr Peter Purton
Southall, London
• I read that limoncello is suddenly popular (‘It knocks your head off!’ How limoncello became a sudden, surprising, soaring success, 30 October). It’s certainly been popular with the back of my cupboard for years.
Nicholas Haward
Musselburgh, East Lothian
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