Simon Jenkins and editors might suggest how readers know which MPs show “intelligence, radicalism and independence” (Labour to win, Tories to lose: but why can’t Britain have radical MPs free to speak their minds?, 1 July). There are sketches; otherwise, reports of what is said by MPs is sketchy at most.
Peter Bottomley
Worthing, West Sussex
On election eve, please don’t let Polly Toynbee do an “On Friday I’ll get my country back” piece like she did before the Brexit referendum. Wouldn’t want to jinx things.
Ian Cassidy
Walsall, West Midlands
Appropriate tunes for election night (Letters, 1 July) might be Wipe Out by the Surfaris and The End by the Doors.
Dr Iain Ferris
Pembrey, Carmarthenshire
Surely a more fitting place than Donington for Matthew Flinders (Explorer ‘who named Australia’ to be reburied in Lincolnshire village where he was born, 30 June) would be in the churchyard of St Thomas in Charlton, London, where his widow, Ann, is buried. She was left on her own for many years while he explored the world.
Jane Lawson
London
An example of Milliganesque behaviour (Letters, 30 June): I was in our garden refuse bin, trampling the contents down. My wife suggested I was following Spike’s exhortation: “When you’re feeling low down and you can’t find romance, leap into a dustbin and dance.”
Tom Mahoney
Bexleyheath, London
Re the meaning of Milliganesque, how about “spiky”?
Bill Stephenson
Harrow, London