Prof Kneebone is the right man for the job | Brief letters
Your article (Review, 26 October) says Posy Simmonds "has been delighting readers with her exquisitely drawn comic strips and novels since the 1970s, when she began to lampoon the Guardian-reading bourgeoisie in a long-running comic strip that grew into Mrs Weber's Diary". But before that, Simmonds drew Bear for Murdoch's Sun, starting in 1969. Bear (a teddy) was the Philip Green of the nursery. You can still obtain a book of the cartoons secondhand.
Philippa Pigache
Cross in Hand, East Sussex
" I was very distressed to read the letter (30 October) from a claimant who earns less than 500 per month and will receive only 98 universal credit. My income from pensions is lower than the tax threshold, but I do have a secure home. I am ashamed and depressed to live in a country where people are denied sufficient income to buy food and pay their rent. Clearly, one half don't know how the other half live, and don't care.
Janette Ward
Tarrington, Herefordshire