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Where have all the butterflies gone? Where have all the butterflies gone?
(4 months later)
I don’t know whether to be happy or sad. No cabbage white butterfly caterpillars chomping through my veg is great, but where have all the butterflies gone (Letters, passim)? Not only have I not seen a single cabbage white butterfly this year but no red admirals, no peacocks and no tortoiseshells. Very worrying.Peter HansonExeterI don’t know whether to be happy or sad. No cabbage white butterfly caterpillars chomping through my veg is great, but where have all the butterflies gone (Letters, passim)? Not only have I not seen a single cabbage white butterfly this year but no red admirals, no peacocks and no tortoiseshells. Very worrying.Peter HansonExeter
• As she dissected the subtle and not so subtle outrages of patriarchy experienced from Virginia Woolf to “labouring women in Mexico”, I wonder what discretion or inhibition Charlotte Higgins (Patriarchy: the return of a radical idea, 22 June) exercised not to mention the pronounced patriarchy in the Catholic church (the Holy Father for goodness sake), the male-delineated roles in ultra-orthodox Judaism, and in the various iterations (institutional or cultural) of Islam, all elided (that is to say obscured) in the one word reference to “religion”.Philip StogdonLondon• As she dissected the subtle and not so subtle outrages of patriarchy experienced from Virginia Woolf to “labouring women in Mexico”, I wonder what discretion or inhibition Charlotte Higgins (Patriarchy: the return of a radical idea, 22 June) exercised not to mention the pronounced patriarchy in the Catholic church (the Holy Father for goodness sake), the male-delineated roles in ultra-orthodox Judaism, and in the various iterations (institutional or cultural) of Islam, all elided (that is to say obscured) in the one word reference to “religion”.Philip StogdonLondon
• I applaud the protest against President Trump. I live within walking distance of Chequers where Theresa May will meet him. Please tell me how and when I can join the protest there. As a pensioner this will be my first ever physical presence at a protest as I feel so strongly that we should make it clear to him that he is a threat to democracy.Dr Janet VokeMonks Risborough, Buckinghamshire• I applaud the protest against President Trump. I live within walking distance of Chequers where Theresa May will meet him. Please tell me how and when I can join the protest there. As a pensioner this will be my first ever physical presence at a protest as I feel so strongly that we should make it clear to him that he is a threat to democracy.Dr Janet VokeMonks Risborough, Buckinghamshire
• When our stolen Morris Minor convertible (Letters, 25 June) was used as a getaway car, fortunately for the escaping gang, the wheels didn’t fall off. Is this the only recorded incident of a Morris Minor being used for such a purpose?Helen MajorNeedham, Norfolk• When our stolen Morris Minor convertible (Letters, 25 June) was used as a getaway car, fortunately for the escaping gang, the wheels didn’t fall off. Is this the only recorded incident of a Morris Minor being used for such a purpose?Helen MajorNeedham, Norfolk
• With reference to Ikea opening a store in India (Report, 25 June), please can we have one?Steven BowditchMayor of Carlisle• With reference to Ikea opening a store in India (Report, 25 June), please can we have one?Steven BowditchMayor of Carlisle
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