Should I Pay Heed To This Swift Dismissal? | Brief Letters

Everybody is entitled to an opinion, but I’m not judge what worth to connect to that of a bloke successful his mid-50s astir nan latest medium by Taylor Swift, an creator whose songs resonate pinch a monolithic halfway assemblage of women up to 2 generations younger than him (Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl reappraisal – dull razzle-dazzle from a prima who seems frazzled, 3 October). Other than to pass disconnected different blokes successful their 50s.
Ian A Anderson (bloke successful his precocious 70s)
Cambridge

I was very pleased to spot Adrian Chiles’s appreciation of Aztec broccoli (2 October). I discovered it past year, and though it’s not arsenic tasty arsenic existent broccoli, it’s overmuch easier to turn and doesn’t pull nan dreaded cabbage achromatic butterfly. I’ve been happily eating nan abundant small shoots from conscionable 2 plants for nan past month.
Hannah Hyam
Batheaston, Somerset

Walking past a supermarket past week, I noticed that nan authorities crackdown connected “buy one, get 1 free” offers was already being obeyed. Posters successful nan windows now advertised galore of these products arsenic half-price!
Sarah Horrocks
Sampford Peverell, Devon

My favourite TV subtitle utilized to beryllium “up stray aliens” for Australians (Letters, 3 October). Then a mates of weeks agone President Putin became “prison pudding”. Bliss.
Pamela Ellis
York

Bread-and-butter pudding hacks (Letters, 30 September)?. That near complete and somewhat old Christmas pannetone is moreover amended – lighter and pinch tons of citrus peel.
Lynn Wiseman
Lewes, East Sussex