You know what they say about management consultants | Letters

Regarding your editorial (Authority and reassurance are valued more than real expertise, 28 February), 45 years of public service brought me into contact with many such consultants. I would agree with the description of “someone who steals your watch to tell you the time”.
Trefor Newman
Newport

• In La La Land, Ryan Gosling’s character mansplains to Emma Stone in a jazz club that the thing that has killed jazz is that the audience always talks through the music rather than listening to it. And he does this… while talking through the music. Presumably, this is part of the ambiguity that Tony Haynes (Letters, 1 March) posits about the film.
Dr Richard Carter
London

• Val McDermid doesn’t need such a long name for her retirement home for recalcitrant lesbians (Opinion, 28 February). Just call it Radclyffe Hall.
Ian Skidmore
Welwyn, Hertfordshire

• Dr Patrick O’Sullivan (Letters, 28 February) appears not to have noticed that in William Morris’s vision of a future London, the women are doing all the cooking and clearing up (but that’s OK because they enjoy it) and keep their beauty because they do not bother their heads with books. If that’s Utopia, count me out.
Rita Gallard
Norwich

• When awarding best sports website of the year to the Guardian (Report, 28 February), women were obviously not considered “serious sports fans”. Time to include gender and diversity criteria in awards.
Marion Hine
Woodbridge, Suffolk

• Re amusing labels on game (Letters, 1 March), I once saw a sign on a butchers’ window below a string of rabbits: “Watership Down. You’ve read the book. You’ve seen the film. Now, eat the cast!”
Patrick Russell
London

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