Tinker’s untailored years in the RAF

While right to applaud Glasgow University’s commitment to confront its own complicity in past slavery, Afua Hirsch (Opinion, 19 September) notes that the key socioeconomic faultline in today’s city remains overwhelmingly among white kids: “Only three-quarters of boys born in Glasgow, for example, can expect to live to 65.” She might have also added that a vanishingly small percentage of these boys will ever study at Glasgow University.
Alistair Richardson
Stirling

• Went to the supermarket to buy my Wednesday Guardian. Put it in the basket, noticed the front page was dominated by a large photo of Samantha Cameron simpering (no other word for it) on the steps of No 10, put it back, bought a lottery ticket instead with the £2. A better bet.
Sue Wilson
Bethesda, Gwynedd

• Where’s the Fat Controller when we need him (‘Nobody took charge’; regulator’s damning verdict on rail chaos, 20 September)?
Kevin Pattison
Leeds

• For some time in 1954 I was NCO in charge of the billet at RAF Thorney Island where SAC Dudley Sutton (Obituary, 16 September) was quartered. When off duty he was rarely seen without literature in his hand, and he was noted for having what might be described as a rather casual attitude towards the correct wearing of the Queen’s uniform.
Donald Chroston
Sunderland

• Regarding the ludo/Llandudno joke (Letters, 20 September), the version I know referred to Loch/LLanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Dr Allan Dodds
Nottingham

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