Opposite for your letter author’s declare (10 August), Rafael Behr selected the precise time period (Britain is trapped in political purgatory – looking ahead to its undead govt to fall, 9 August). Hell is everlasting, however purgatory is brief – you get out ultimately. And whilst paradise isn’t on be offering to citizens, we will have govt for the numerous, no longer the few.
Jenny Tillyard
Seaford, East Sussex

I ponder whether younger girls who’re feeling expanding force from harassment to not take their bikini tops off at the seaside in France (Marie le Conte, 10 August) really feel extra sympathy than the French state has proven for Muslim girls who’ve been penalised for masking as much as swim?
Nandita Dowson
London

Information about machine-generated prose (Amazon eliminates books ‘generated by way of AI’ on the market underneath creator’s title, 9 August) was once expected in 1954 by way of Roald Dahl in his droll brief tale The Nice Grammatizator, which depicted the discovery of any such mechanical device.
Richard Chatten
Crystal Palace, London

Horrified by way of product placement within the Barbie movie (Amelia Tait, 10 August)? Rising up within the 80s, we spent our Saturday mornings gazing cartoons that have been principally toy commercials, eg Transformers and He-Guy.
Sarah Lewins
Birmingham

Re your record (Hacked UK voter information may well be used to focus on disinformation, warn professionals, 9 August). Electorate are already given false knowledge – in birthday celebration manifestos.
Michael Fuller
Harpenden, Hertfordshire