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| 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 HansonExeter | 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 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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