Now we’ve exhausted Morris Minor and Lucy Mangan adopters (Letters, passim), can we call a halt to letters that include “As a…”? They appear almost every day, the latest example (Letters, 27 September) being “As a solicitor who specialises in sexual offences…” Often the self-description bears no relation to the subject under discussion. So, as a 70-year-old granny who plays the ukulele badly, I’m asking: please, you Azzers, desist.

Jan Clark

Everdon, Northamptonshire

• On 11 April 2018 your cricket reporter Ali Martin forecast that Lancashire CCC would win the County Championship. Please don’t do this again, Mr Martin. It’s the kiss of death (Lancashire down after missing out on batting point, 26 September).

Liz Newell

Sudbury, Suffolk

• Of course Donald Trump is outraged that the leaders of Iran “sow chaos, death and destruction” in the Middle East (The world’s derision halts Trump UN speech, 26 September). That’s his job.

Alan Stephens

Stockport

• “The Russians are playing chess, and the Americans are playing poker.” It’s not recorded who said it first, but it seems appropriate at the moment.

Dr Valerie Stewart

Charlbury, Oxfordshire

• I find it depressing that our towns and cities can support so many junk food outlets (Research finds link between junk food diet and depression, 26 September).

Gary Bennett

Exeter

• Successful relationships (Letters, 27 September)? I look for the “four As” – affection, affinity, attraction and admiration.

Richard Daugherty

Swansea

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