Baby boomers’ big spending benefits all

The worst idea was having fixed terms for parliament (Brexit and Britain’s broken democracy, Letters, 19 June). The electorate can now go to sleep for five years, whereas everyone should be thinking politically more often. The Chartists had the best idea. Their only unachieved object was annual parliaments; but we should not need annual general elections. We could have the system that formerly existed in local government, with one-third of members coming up for election each year.
Violet Pole
Bridgend, Wales

• In her review of the book about the Olivier sisters (Review, 15 June), Elizabeth Lowry spoke of “the bucolic idealism underpinning the Fabian worldview”. Fabianism is normally taken to be a reformist form of socialism which proposes change through more efficient administration, using rational and scientific methods. It has little or nothing to do with bucolic idealism.
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton

• So baby boomers are laying out more on recreation, restaurants, hotels and culture, are we (Report, 20 June)? Disgraceful. On the other hand, if we stopped, an awful lot more people would be out of work.
Rita Gallard
Norwich

• What irony that 1 across in Thursday’s quick crossword (“Ability in the management of national affairs”, 13 letters, first one S) came on a day when we have never seen such an absence of this in our politicians.
Marcus Cleaver
Malvern, Worcestershire

• Hergé’s detectives were, in English, Thomson and Thompson, not the Thompson twins (Letters, 21 June).
Alec Sandison
Ottery St Mary, Devon

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