Rowan Atkinson’s article misses the point (I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped, 3 June). While it is true that the manufacturing of an electric car produces twice the greenhouse gases of a petrol car, when you take the whole 20-year lifecycle into account, the electric car is a winner: it produces less than half the greenhouse gases of a petrol car. When it comes to climate change, we’re out of time.
Andrew Gould
Bosham, West Sussex
Like Alec Douet’s, my boarding school kitchen had a scarcity of supplies during wartime (Letters, 31 May). We were sent out foraging in the countryside for hazelnuts and chestnuts, sloes, rosehips, blackberries and damsons.
Desmond Painter
Bournemouth
To help compare how water companies are performing, how about a metric calculated by dividing the amount each pays out in dividends in a given year by the number of litres of sewage they dump in rivers and lakes that year? It could be called the Shit Shareholder Ratio.
Pete Bibby
Sheffield
We do indeed need the return of Miliband the elder (Letters, 1 June). Unfortunately, Ralph – who wrote the classic book on the history of the Labour party, Parliamentary Socialism – is no longer with us.
Keith Flett
Tottenham, London
The Irish call an English measure “a damp glass” (Letters, 2 June).
Cyril Duff
London
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