Let’s help Boris Johnson take second place | Brief letters
How my mother would have loved to be called a beatnik (Learning to cook like a beatnik, G2, 28 November). Growing up in the north in the late 40s and 50s our weekly menu was an "unmovable feast". Sunday roast provided gravy for meatless panackelty Monday or minced leftover meat for a pie. The week progressed through mince and tatties, mince on toast, shepherd's pie, and once in a blue moon a mutton chop. Friday was putting the knife into my brother's money box for pennies for a tin of beans until my father's pay came.
Jean Jackson
Seer Green, Buckinghamshire
" To "make [Boris] Johnson the shortest-serving PM ever" may well be an inspiring idea (Editorial, 27 November), but that objective has already been missed, as he surpassed George Canning's length of tenure last week. He might just, however, manage to get into second place, as he will not pass Lord Goderich (as it happens, Canning's successor in office) until the weekend after the general election. That is up to the electorate to help him achieve.
Stephen Hart
Colwall, Herefordshire