So British cities have “rise[n] up the rankings” of how much it costs to live in them so that London has “made it back into the top 20” and Birmingham has “moved up 19 spots” (Report, 26 June). Why did you report this news as if unaffordable cities are something to be aspired towards?

Naomi Standen

Birmingham

• If a swift is sick or injured, throwing it into the air could hurt it (Letters, 23 June). Swift Conservation gives guidance on how to help a grounded swift. See tinyurl.com/swift999

Emma Brooker

Lewisham Swifts

• Surely with some sensitivity to the arguments of both sides in the debate about allowing transgender people to use the women’s pool on Hampstead Heath, Stonewall might have produced a different spokesperson than Paul Twocock (Report, 26 June).

John Freeman

Claypole, Nottinghamshire

• Our petite voiture en bois (Letters, 26 June) is still remembered 35 years later on the campsite we visit in Brittany. It also took us and a caravan (illegally, it turns out) up the Champs Élysées, to amazed stares.

Mu Tucker

Leeds

• Was Boris Johnson’s pledge to lie down in front of the bulldozers to stop Heathrow’s third runway a factor in the government’s overwhelming majority (Report, 26 June)?

Chris Piggott

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

• Traditionalist members of the C of E who see leaping clerics as a novelty (Report, 23 June) are clearly unaware of the Order of St Beryl, featured on Not Only… But Also back in the 60s.

Simon Higman

Kingston upon Thames, Surrey

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