As Toby Wood (Letters, 10 July) notes, beard lovers – pogonophiles in the Greek – deserve recognition, and Polly Hudson’s hirsute solidarity is welcome. There is a note of caution in the UK heatwave. While in Algiers in April 1882, Karl Marx had his iconic beard shaved because the weather was too hot. Just now beard wearers and allies may love facial hair a little less.
Keith Flett
Organiser, Beard Liberation Front
Whatever her views on the Parthenon statues (Liz Truss and hard-right group accused of scaremongering over Parthenon marbles, 11 July), Liz Truss is surely the most outstanding figure in British politics when it comes to lost marbles.
Mark Lewinski-Grende
Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire
Readers may be interested to know that a full-size replica of the Bayeux tapestry, made in the late 19th century by members of the Leek Embroidery Society in Staffordshire, is on permanent display in the Bayeux Gallery of Reading Museum (Bayeux tapestry to return to Britain for first time in 900 years, 8 July).
Sue Gilbert
Charlton Horethorne, Somerset
I bet I wasn’t the only one who, for just a second, read the headline in the print edition on your article and thought you were referring to Ozzy (Osborne was on No 10 shortlist to be US envoy, says PM’s biographer, 8 July).
Mike Shipton
Silverton, Devon
“‘Train wreck’: president mocks Musk for bankrolling new party”, says the headline on your report in the print edition of 8 July. Surely the colon is superfluous?
Mike Pender
Cardiff
