Does the scientist giving advice on having grapefruit along with your cup of tea know that if you take medication for blood pressure conditions you should avoid grapefruit (Deja brew: chemistry professor’s latest advice on tea drinking – try grapefruit, 16 February)?
Ann Newell
Thame, Oxfordshire
• I was reminded by Lola Okolosie’s article (Why are kids doing the ‘Brexit tackle’? They’re having fun at adults’ expense – and mocking our toxic politics, 14 February) that my sister refers to her frozen shoulder as a “Brexit shoulder” as it no longer has full freedom of movement.
Susan Hutchinson
Oxford
• I was about to start conducting a performance of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito when I noticed some children in the front row. I went over to them to deliver a trigger warning (Report, 11 February) that there was a very scary murder on stage during the overture. Their reply: “We love scary.”
David Davies
Salisbury
• On being informed that the University of Bristol was to make me an emeritus professor (Letters, 14 February), I inquired whether being an emeritus professor involved anything besides being called an emeritus professor. I received no reply.
Emeritus professor Keith Graham
Bristol
• It should be acknowledged that before Rishi Sunak took charge, the country was standing at a cliff edge. Since then we have taken a great step forward (Editorial, 15 February).
Terry O’Hara
Maghull, Merseyside
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