Your report says most US bases in Britain “misleadingly … have ‘Royal Air Force’ in their name” (Bunker busters and a Burger King: a visual guide to US military bases on British soil, 12 April). Driving past Lakenheath in the cold war years, I always thought the “Ministry of Defense” perimeter notices were a bit of a giveaway.
David Griffiths
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Re your report (I do not fear Trump, says Pope Leo after US president calls him ‘weak’, 13 April), we’ve been in much the same place before, when Joseph Stalin asked: “How many divisions does the Pope have?”
Robin Jacob
London
Can I suggest that Donald Trump tries walking on water (Trump deletes post with AI image of himself as Jesus-like figure after outcry, 13 April)?
Colin Jones
West Norwood, London
Economists and political theorists have put forward many arguments for a more progressive tax regime in the UK. None are as compelling as your article on the rise of luxury matchboxes (12 April).
Martin Andrew
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Like Geoff Reid (Letters, 13 April), my husband and I were delighted to receive our bus passes. What would make our happiness complete would be a local bus service so that we could put them to use.
Sue Gilbert
Charlton Horethorne, Somerset
My late cousin Mike, ordering business cards, said his surname was “Clarke with an E” (Letters, 10 April). He received 200 cards with the name “Mike Clark-Withaney”.
John Beer
Farnham, Surrey
