Forget Oxford. Let’s hear it for St Andrews

The front-page headline “Oxford falls to third place in university rankings” (8 June) could just as easily– and more positively – have read: “St Andrews rises to second place in university rankings.” Is this an example of favouring negative news over positive, or is it simply anti-Scottish prejudice? Congratulations to St Andrews.
Fiona Collins
Carrog, Denbighshire

• It’s unfortunate that in mentioning Melissa Harrison’s novel, All Among the Barley, you pictured her against a field of wheat (The books that made me, Review, 8 June).
Sue Leyland
Hunmanby, North Yorkshire

• No doubt there will be people in Peterborough seeking to overturn Labour’s small majority (Letters, 8 June). They will, of course, be given that chance on 5 May 2022, (a little under three years). Fortunately, democracy allows the electorate the opportunity to change its mind. Sometimes.
Jane Taylor
Sherborne, Dorset

• One of our managers used to give candidates a bottle of water (Dirty mugs and dirtier mind games, G2, 6 June). If they drank from the bottle instead of pouring it into a glass they were automatically rejected as “they weren’t the kind of people we wanted in the firm”.
Bill Onwusah
London

• As a teacher who lived through Michael Gove’s tenure as education secretary, I wonder if his drug habit might have lasted rather longer than he has admitted (Report, 10 June).
Phil Badger
Elsecar, South Yorkshire

• I feel Michael Gove would make a more flexible Brexit negotiator than Theresa May. He would surely replace her red lines with white ones.
Rick Gwilt
Glossop, Derbyshire

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