The killer question for Donald Trump

Lucy Mangan’s TV review (15 January) reminded me that Lesney, makers of Matchbox toys, marketed a scale model of the coronation coach, reusing one made for the 1951 Festival of Britain. Only once production was under way did they realise that the Queen would not be accompanied by her consort. The problem was solved by sawing off part of the mould. The Duke of Edinburgh’s disembodied legs, however, remained visible. I ascertained this in person at a design exhibition in Prague, where Matchbox toys were much prized in this era as an affordable source of knowledge about western design.
Colin Munro
Glasgow

• Good to see composer Gavin Bryars in Tuesday’s Birthdays as he marks his 75th birthday. But fellow composer Brian Ferneyhough, born on the same day as Mr Bryars, was unaccountably omitted.
Robin Chapman
Exeter

• For readers distraught, disappointed and just dumbfounded by the skimped appearance of the new Guardian-lite may be interested in a solution which admittedly may be tricky to perform on packed early morning buses and trains. I snip the precious inches from yesterday’s edition and carefully attach with sellotape to the bottom of the current one. Hey presto! I have my old reliable and readable Berliner in my hands. Please bring it back.
Jack Lyons
Cork

• I like it and I’ll get used to it, but I don’t like the yellow.
Matthew Hooberman
Bruton, Somerset

• Would it help Monsieur Macron if we took over Calais (Report, 17 January)? After all, we’ve done it before.
Robin Sellwood
Truro, Cornwall

• “Hunt for Baghdadi” (strapline, 16 January). Is this a swap or a reshuffle? If so, who is getting the better deal? Will the head of Isis make a better job of running the NHS?
David Hodgetts
Morpeth, Northumberland

• As part of his battery of cognitive tests, was Donald Trump asked: “Who’s the president of the USA?”
Tom Fisher
Worcester

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