The Vogue photographs of Theresa May show her in clothes and surroundings of smug luxury (‘Trump was actually being a gentleman’, 21 March). They should have been juxtaposed with photos of the homeless, the bedridden elderly receiving negligible care or workers suffering squalid conditions – with Mrs May’s ambiguous claim as the heading, “The Tories help people to rise up”. Surely, time for the people to “rise up”.
Peter Cave
London
• Sadiq Khan’s summary of the Battle of Cable Street (G2, 16 March) makes two omissions. In listing the coalition that defeated the fascist march he fails to mention the leading roles played by the Independent Labour party (ILP) and the Communist party. Did he forget or didn’t he know?
Barry Winter
Leeds
• Hadley Freeman (whom I like a lot) goes over the top with her hatred of Love Actually (Opinion, 21 March). The characters played by Hugh Grant, Colin Firth and Alan Rickman did not sexually harass their female subordinates in the workplace: Alan’s secretary threw herself at him, and the other two relationships are rather sweet. I agree the film is cloying mostly, but Bill Nighy rescues it.
John Richards
Oxford
• I overheard my seven-year-old grandson telling his four-year-old sister to clean her teeth, “or you will end up looking like grandma” (Tooth extractions on children under four rise by quarter, 21 March).
Barbara Symonds
Birmingham
• My mother would make bread pudding for my dad to carry with him when he competed 12-hour cycle races in the 1950s (Letters, passim). It was much missed by me when he stopped racing.
Jenny Haynes
Horkstow, North Lincolnshire
• Ta-ra, Chuck (Obituary, 20 March).
David Hinton
Bournemouth, Dorset
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