Mother and father pressured to move into the academic breach | Training

The govt cuts, cuts, cuts, and underfunds faculties and unique education and learning requirements provision, and then the authorities are stunned when property education numbers rise (Councils in England report 34% rise in elective dwelling training, 24 November)? Your headline might better have read through: “34% raise in focused parents mopping up government failings”.
Clare Quarman
Windsor, Berkshire

It was unattainable to watch the prime minister’s speech (The politics sketch, 22 November) with out getting reminded of David Brent’s motivational speech to a identical audience of stony-faced business people in The Office.
Andrew Hope
Oxford

Repatriation of the looted Greek sculptures (Parthenon marbles really should never have been removed, Boris Johnson wrote, 23 November) would certainly prompt the headline: “Johnson has dropped his marbles”.
David Feintuck
Lewes, East Sussex

John Beck asks for solutions of a broadcaster that holds electric power to account (Letters, 24 November). Channel 4 Information does just that, repeatedly.
Rod Warrington
Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire

Like many audience (Letters, 24 November), I have some elderly foodstuffs in my cupboard, including a tin of duck cassoulet, acquired in Paris in the 1990s. I system to take in it just before I die. Almost certainly just in advance of.
Liz Fuller
London