It’s not all haggis and Scotch pies up here | Brief letters
Brief letters: Food at the fringe | A gardener’s worst nightmare | Well-informed voters | Remembering Tom Lehrer | Lionesses/Lions
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I’m not sure who Zainab Johnson’s been talking to, but she’ll have no problem finding vegan/plant-based food here in Edinburgh during the fringe (‘I spent a month sleeping in a cupboard’: comedians on the true cost of the Fringe, 27 July). We have thousands of restaurants, the vast majority offering plant-based alternatives.
Siobhan McGovern
Edinburgh
• I too expect Nigel Farage to be on Gardeners’ Question Time soon (Letters, 24 July). Not for any money-tree expertise, however, but because it seems to be the only BBC media platform to which he isn’t already given regular open access.
Mike Hine
Kingston upon Thames, London
• I agree that “Having a well-informed tranche of young voters would be wonderful” (Letters, 23 July). But given many electoral results here and in the US, I would go further: having well-informed voters would be wonderful.
Steve Barrett
Nettleton, Lincolnshire
• We will remember Tom Lehrer by poisoning some pigeons in the park (Tom Lehrer, acclaimed musical satirist of cold war era, dies aged 97, 28 July).
Derek McMillan
Durrington, West Sussex
• A review of The Winter’s Tale (23 July), but no mention of the climactic bear scene! The best bit. Actually, all I remember of the play.
Peter Brooker
West Wickham, London
• Why are women performing on a stage called “actor” instead of “actress” but women performing on a football field “Lionesses” instead of “Lions”?
Christine Fuchs
Chigwell, Essex
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