Perhaps the next statue to occupy the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square should be a woman breastfeeding her child. This might assist the understanding that the primary purpose of female human mammary glands is to nourish the offspring whenever and wherever the need arises (Breastfeeding woman at V&A told to cover up, 7 August).

Paul F Faupel

Somersham, Cambridgeshire

• Amateur cricketers from overseas may be prevented from playing in England by new Home Office rules (Report, 8 August), but “Basil D’Oliveira, a South African of mixed race” played for the Central Lancashire League team Middleton as a professional. His journey to the dark, wet, mill town was facilitated by the Guardian’s own John Arlott.

Dr John Lingard

Newcastle upon Tyne

• In choosing 1922 as the point the Liberal party began to frustrate progressive politics, Harvey Taylor (Letters, 2 August) forgets their 1886 split over Irish home rule and the 10-year coalition between Liberal Unionists and the Conservatives from 1895 before their merger in 1912.

Will White

Liverpool

• Interesting to see Vince Cable talk of older voters “shafting young people” by voting for Brexit (Report, 7 August) when the Lib Dems voted for an increase in tuition fees contrary to their pre-2010 election promises.

Clive Bell

Hastings

• Yes, hooray that codeword clues are back to two letters (Letters, 8 August). Could we now have a codeword on Saturdays? That would stop me switching to another newspaper for the day!

Jennifer Jenkins

Southampton

• I turn to Saskia Sarginson’s Saturday column each week with a sense of impending doom. Please can you request that she shows a bundle of columns to her Family section colleague Annalisa Barbieri? Things are bad enough already and Annalisa may be able to help her.

Karen Bevan

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire

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