Needed: a jab for political stupidity

Government spokespersons have frequently criticised the music profession as “elitist” (Music disappearing from the curriculum, 10 October). A certain irony then, that government education policies are a major contributory factor in state schools becoming increasingly less able to offer music as an option.
Ruth Windle
Frome, Somerset

• Delighted to see your feature on Spanish tortilla, but using the word “fry” doesn’t help cooks in Britain (The home of tortilla at war over who knows their onions, 13 October). Olive oil burns at “frying” temperatures, so the sliced potato actually stews before beaten egg is added in the final stages. You probably won’t detect whether there is onion in there.
Terry Eaton
Milton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire

• Government says “Get a flu jab now!” So I phone all the pharmacies in Weymouth. “We’ve run out of vaccine for the over-65s,” they say. “There’s a shortage. Expecting more in November.” Is there a vaccine for preventing stupidity in politicians?
Steve Elsworth
Weymouth, Dorset

• Apropos Claire Rawsthorn’s twinship (Letters, 11 October), during the war, our individual sugar rations were in separate jars along the kitchen windowsill, each jar named. Seven children, six jars: Francis, Mary, Peter, John, Tessie, Twins. I didn’t resent it then or since.
Bernard Scholes
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

• It’s great that 100 drinking fountains are to be installed across London (Report, 12 October) but won’t a corresponding number of public toilets have to be re-opened?
Stephen Pardy
London

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