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| The Tate organisation (The new Tate St Ives: great gallery, pity about the flats, 27 September) would probably get a more favourable reception from the people of Cornwall if it removed the entrance fee to the St Ives gallery. I have asked both Nicholas Serota and Maria Balshaw why all their other galleries have free entrance, but it costs £9.50 to go to the St Ives outpost. I can only imagine that they don’t like the Cornish? Perhaps if they removed this anomaly they would find less “local resistance” to their extension plans.Roderick ClarkeTruro, Cornwall | The Tate organisation (The new Tate St Ives: great gallery, pity about the flats, 27 September) would probably get a more favourable reception from the people of Cornwall if it removed the entrance fee to the St Ives gallery. I have asked both Nicholas Serota and Maria Balshaw why all their other galleries have free entrance, but it costs £9.50 to go to the St Ives outpost. I can only imagine that they don’t like the Cornish? Perhaps if they removed this anomaly they would find less “local resistance” to their extension plans.Roderick ClarkeTruro, Cornwall |
| • You print a photo of a man with buffalo horns placed on his back to increase blood circulation (You think you get back pain?, 27 September), but the accompanying caption ends with the ludicrous new age suggestion that this “helps to stimulate the flow of energy in the body”. Energy does not “flow”, blood does: this is straight out of Gwyneth Paltrow’s risible Goop Lab, which Rory Carroll recently anathematised (Sex dust and vampire repellent: a stroll through Gwyneth Paltrow’s first shop, 22 September). Dr Richard CarterLondon | • You print a photo of a man with buffalo horns placed on his back to increase blood circulation (You think you get back pain?, 27 September), but the accompanying caption ends with the ludicrous new age suggestion that this “helps to stimulate the flow of energy in the body”. Energy does not “flow”, blood does: this is straight out of Gwyneth Paltrow’s risible Goop Lab, which Rory Carroll recently anathematised (Sex dust and vampire repellent: a stroll through Gwyneth Paltrow’s first shop, 22 September). Dr Richard CarterLondon |
| • Wherever politicians speak, they tend to try to ingratiate themselves with the locals. Theresa May’s tribute to the Renaissance in Florence (Report, 23 September) reminded me of a Harold Wilson speech. He asked: “Why do I stress the importance of the Royal Navy?” A heckler replied: “Because you’re in Chatham!”Barry SamuelReigate, Surrey | • Wherever politicians speak, they tend to try to ingratiate themselves with the locals. Theresa May’s tribute to the Renaissance in Florence (Report, 23 September) reminded me of a Harold Wilson speech. He asked: “Why do I stress the importance of the Royal Navy?” A heckler replied: “Because you’re in Chatham!”Barry SamuelReigate, Surrey |
| • No mention in your obituary of Tony Booth (27 September) of the urban myth that he was a descendent of John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot Lincoln, a mischief that Booth perhaps himself instigated to embarrass Tony Blair on one of his chummy visits to the White House.Steven LatronicoChichester | • No mention in your obituary of Tony Booth (27 September) of the urban myth that he was a descendent of John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot Lincoln, a mischief that Booth perhaps himself instigated to embarrass Tony Blair on one of his chummy visits to the White House.Steven LatronicoChichester |
| • The only person I knew who ever read Proust all through (Letters, 27 September) – in the original French – was one of my lecturers at St Andrews University in the 1970s who said it was the only way to pass the time while laid up with gout one long summer vacation. I gave up after volume 1. A chacun son goût.Ian ArnottPeterborough | • The only person I knew who ever read Proust all through (Letters, 27 September) – in the original French – was one of my lecturers at St Andrews University in the 1970s who said it was the only way to pass the time while laid up with gout one long summer vacation. I gave up after volume 1. A chacun son goût.Ian ArnottPeterborough |
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