Your article (Turn the blocks in London’s office in ‘late-night party zones’, report suggested, 13 July) Miss the real opportunity to improve the use of bad, bad babel towers for something useful: housing. Forget about the point, think about the existing. Let’s rule the dangers of the past and give people everywhere to live.
Janet Tomlinson
Andever, Hampshire
Jonathan Jones says: “Here artists offer offender: They think fun but artists are suffering” (Ed Sheeran’s Pollock’s pollock has loud but no feelings or facts, July 9). Isn’t he puzzling “art” with “criticism of art”?
John Warburton
Edinburgh
The letter of the beards (Letters, July 13) reminds me when I am in the civil service and, at a meeting, one of our managers warned us: “Don’t trust a man with a beard.” It’s fully listening to one of the other beard managers.
Ian Arnott
WERRINGTON, PETERBOROUGH
A beard is not always a great travel companion. In 1970, my husband stopped at the Czechoslovakian border because he had a beard but his passport was not. Guards guards make him shave before they leave.
Christine cratsshaw
London
Somerset cows that produce the tail nose so that a cow tail is a fan of others and fly to the swat (Panting, Gular Fluttering and Sploots: How British animals seek to keep cool, 11 July).
Profer Terry Gifford
Wookey, Somerset
