Moving oceans to level up | Brief letters

Levelling up' | Boris Johnson | Clothkits | Flatulence

On the idea of levelling up" (Letters, 16 August), I was reminded of Lord Grade when he was told about the high costs of making his film, Raise the Titanic. Apparently he mused that it could possibly be cheaper to lower the Atlantic.
John Rathbone
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

You could lace a billion pairs of shoes with the irony of the prime minister, Boris Johnson, telling the Commons on Wednesday that on Afghanistan, we will judge this regime on the choices it makes and by its actions rather than its words" (Tories rebuke Boris Johnson over catastrophic' Afghanistan failure, 18 August).
Mark Boyle
Johnstone, Renfrewshire