Name that tumor: Donald, Elon, Vladimir, Nigel? | Short letters

When I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, you kindly published my letter (May 29, 2022) in which you referred to my tumor as Boris, as an unwanted growth that needed to be eliminated. Well, I won that one, but now the gods have decided to give me prostate cancer. My shortlist of names this time is Donald, Elon, Vladimir and Nigel. Any better ideas?
Rodney Smith
Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire

Robert Jenrick worries about teaching “pseudo-Marxist gibberish” in our universities (former British colonies ‘owe gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick, October 29). Will he therefore promise that a future Tory government will ensure that all students learn real Marxism?
Alan Gray
Brighton

Perhaps the government could end the debate over who exactly is a working person (The Politics Sketch, October 28) by adopting a trick from the Sunak government’s Rwanda playbook and legislating to make a working person to be defined as anyone she considers a working person?
Philip Davies
Winchester

On Monday Keir Starmer mixed his metaphors: talking about take the economy under fire and lay the foundations. I hope he succeeds and that he doesn’t just talk through his hat about a bee in his hat. After all, there is more than one way to get stung.
Claude Scott
Richmond, London

Can someone, perhaps your dog-owning columnist Tim Dowling, tell me how to explain to our dog that she needs to adjust her biological clock by an hour and not wake us up at 5am?
Peter Wilson
Windermere, Cumbria

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