Sorting the No 11 flat and our priorities | Brief letters

Nuclear weapons | Tottenham cake | Perseverance | Golf costs | Downing Street refurbishment

Despite the UK's current budgetary crisis (Spend now, pay later: Sunak flags major tax rises as Covid bill tops 400bn, 3 March), major parties think it makes sense to spend at least 205bn on a new generation of nuclear weapons. They will be so non-independent that we have to borrow, from the US, the missiles on which to put the warheads. Bonkers is a bit rude, but nothing else comes to mind.
Bruce Kent
Vice-president, CND

It is important not to confuse the school dinner offering Tottenham cake (Pass notes, 3 March) with Tottenham pudding, an industrially produced boil-up of waste fruit and vegetables for consumption by chickens and pigs.
Martyn Day
Twickenham, London