SIR – You report that the Metropolitan Police are “in touch with the Cabinet Office” over the “bring your own booze” party held at the rear of 10 Downing Street. Could they not just ask their own uniformed officers, always on duty at the front door of the building, what actually was going on at the back of it?
Peter Hopper
Walkern, Hertfordshire
SIR – If Boris Johnson ever decides to resign because of the noise regarding parties and wallpaper, there will surely be redundant staff at the BBC Today programme. Its anti-Boris agenda is predictable, boring and depressing – not a good way to start the day.
Ron Clanfield
Thame, Oxfordshire
SIR – Events, dear boy, events.
Brian Hooper
Tiverton, Devon
SIR – Time for a blind man with a stick and a piece of paper in his pocket to start tapping his way along Downing Street.
John Bennett
Ponteland, Northumberland
University in person
SIR –Emily Gordon’s letter (January 11) makes me appreciate the university education I had in the late 1960s.
It was a full house on Monday at 9am in the anatomy lecture theatre at University College London. Professor J Z Young, Fellow of the Royal Society, was developing new ideas in biological science.
On Thursday mornings, in the physiology theatre, Sir Andrew Huxley, a Nobel-Prize winner, gave lectures. These included his work on how nerves and muscles worked.
These names attracted high-quality researchers, from whose expertise you would benefit in tutorials and laboratory sessions. The fact that teaching had to be face-to-face meant that the faculty was always full of students, which provided a great atmosphere for learning and for socialising in the smoke-filled common rooms, where the favourite game was bridge.
There were no costs.
Dr Michael Pegg
Esher, Surrey
Fanny old world
SIR – When I used a word-game platform to inquire of my daughter how her friend, Fanny, was (Leading Article, January 11), it would repeatedly only print F***y. Are we really such sensitive people these days?
Jan Denbury
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
