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Brief letters

1 August 2024

  • Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves arrives in Downing Street to attend weekly Cabinet meeting in London.

    Inheritance tax for an inherited mess

    Brief letters: Economic shortfall | Hopes for new chancellor | Kemi Badenoch | Pylon teaching aids | Olympic medals

31 July 2024

  • man wearing "budgie smugglers" is seen laying on the sand at Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia

    The glorious range of Australian slang

    Brief letters: Budgie smugglers | In the eye of the beholder | Pylon petulance | Song thrush in Essex | Suella Braverman

30 July 2024

  • Cornu aspersum (the Common garden snail) in a garden in Bexleytheath, Kent

    Life in the fast lane for snails this year

    Brief letters: Year of the snail | Poetic pylons | Hilary Mantel | Poo bag premium | Difficult decisions

29 July 2024

  • Electricity pylons in a blooming rapeseed field

    Pylons can be pretty if you use your imagination

    Letters: Powering homes | Cash over card | Repurposing Bibby Stockholm | An inquiry into inquiries

28 July 2024

  • A member of staff uses an umbrella during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony

    Even in the rain, Paris je t’aime

    Brief letters: Olympic opener | Imagine lyrics | Harvest mice | Healthy drinking | No Guardians here

26 July 2024

  • VW campervan against a blue sky

    Charles and Camilla could become happy campers if they travelled by VW

    Brief letters: New royal helicopters | Grace Darling’s heroism | Top Tory phrases | Cats that steal the cream

25 July 2024

  • Charlotte Dujardin riding Gio at the Tokyo Games in 2021

    Dressage should be brought to a halt

    Brief letters: Charlotte Dujardin | Swimming in the Seine | Elastic band fun | Cat burglars | Working tirelessly

24 July 2024

  • Hats on display, worn by visitors to the royal enclosure at Royal Ascot in Berkshire.

    Why I’m saving my hat for Polly Toynbee

    Brief letters: Two-child cap | Year-round holly berries | Palace costs | Old technology | Rubber band ball

23 July 2024

  • Passengers queue at Gatwick airport amid a global IT outage caused by a defect in a software update last Friday.

    Global IT failure has left me fearing the word ‘upgrade’

    Brief letters: CrowdStrike outage | Computer illiterates | Fighting water companies | Long-lived historian | Rubber band saves sole

22 July 2024

  • The Royal Academy of Arts in London.

    What is art for, if not for political discourse

    Brief letters: Young artists at Royal Academy | Holly berries | Whale strandings | Elastic band use | Wrap it up | Dearth of film canisters

21 July 2024

  • King Charles and Queen Camilla at the state opening of parliament in London

    When royalty and poverty come face to face

    Brief letters: Guardian’s neat juxtaposition | Child poverty | Fixing the housing crisis | Royal Mail elastic bands | Helpful libraryary

19 July 2024

  • Police officers attempt to stop an activist putting up a Just Stop Oil banner along the M25 in November.

    Climate protesters jailed today. Who’s next?

    Brief letters: Prison for protesters | JD Vance’s flip-flop | Elastic band supplies | A realistic illustration

18 July 2024

  • Keir Starmer speaking in parliament on 17 July 2024

    Royally optimistic after the king’s speech

    Brief letters: Keir Starmer’s political agenda | Swapping TV for books | Ash dieback | Carrying pints | Royal Mail’s bothersome bands

16 July 2024

  • The Beatles give a news conference in New York, in August 1966

    John Lennon wasn’t joking about Jesus

    Brief letters: Lennon and Christianity | Pepys loses it | Two-child cap | Guardian delivery | Gareth and Gove | MPs and buses

15 July 2024

  • HMP Wandsworth prison on July 12, 2024 in London.

    The crisis in the prison service goes back to a 1952 act nodded through parliament

    Letters: A fundamental review of jails | PR and voter turnout | Early-bird Guardian delivery | MPs on the buses – if they exist

14 July 2024

  • A van carrying Royal Mail postal deliveries in Bury, Greater Manchester, with ‘local, national, global’ written on the side.

    How to get the postal service back on track

    Brief letters: Royal Mail by rail | Tapestries for our time | Golf courses | Early-rising Guardian readers | Picking the right Pink Floyd

12 July 2024

  • A view of the heavily damaged al-Awda school following an Israeli attack on 10 July 2024.

    Another day, another abhorrent brutality in Gaza

    Brief letters: Israeli strike on school | The Dowlings’ lost keys saga | Women’s football wins | Tory-free travel

11 July 2024

  • Fans at Boxpark Wembley watching England’s Euro 2024 semi-final against the Netherlands on Wednesday night.

    England knocking on heaven’s door at the Euros

    Brief letters: Bob Dylan and Euro 96 | Football team’s multicultural success | Sporting poetry | Country diary politics | MPs taken for a ride

10 July 2024

  • Joel Snape working out, doing the ‘crab hold’ isometric exercise.

    Now that’s not what I call a lazy journalist

    Brief letters: Joel Snape’s busy life | Bring your own bottles | Josephine Butler tribute | Pound-per-vote calculations | Early worms

9 July 2024

  • A postal worker on a delivery round in Summerseat, Greater Manchester

    Up with the lark, but not by choice

    Brief letters: Early risers | Genetic chronotypes | Reform candidates | Rudderless Tories | Constituency wallchart
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