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<strong>Brief letters: </strong>Tories v nihilists | Esther McVey | Cabinet post for John Cleese? | John Crace on Nadine Dorries | Condensed milk | NHS dentists

<strong>Brief letters: </strong>Food prices | Dogs don’t vote | Sunak’s war | Predictive text | Shirt pockets | Smells like H2S

<strong>Brief letters: </strong>Political messages | Foreign foods | Decline and fall | Dover queues | Royalty revealed | Honours list

It’s no wonder that dangerous men are wreaking havoc when so many support staff and services – from drugs workers to adult education – have been deprived of funding

<strong>Brief letters: </strong>Egg prickers | Anger management | Dario Fo play | Missing Keir Starmer

Clinton Heylin | European Super League | Psychedelics | The Guardian Bob Dylan at a press conference, London, 1965. Photograph: Stanley Bielecki/ASP/Getty Images Bob Dylan at a press conference, London, 1965. Photograph: Stanley Bielecki/ASP/Getty Images Letters Wed 21 Apr 2021 13.11 EDT Last modified on Wed 21 Apr 2021 14.03 EDT May I share Howard Sounes’s disappointment with Clinton Heylin’s new biography of Bob Dylan (Report, 19 April). Like him, I was savaged by Heylin, in my case...

Letters Donating your jab would undermine the rationale behind the prioritisation scheme, writes John Main. Plus letters from Ruth Eversley and Linda Murgatroyd ‘We will need to keep some elements of social distancing long term, as well as adjusting our expectations.’ Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Rex/Shutterstock ‘We will need to keep some elements of social distancing long term, as well as adjusting our expectations.’ Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Rex/Shutterstock Wed 3 Feb 2021 13.02 EST Las...

A man clearing ice from a frozen lake to make a space for the ducks and swans to swim, February 1963. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images I too have rooted out an old issue of the Guardian (Letters, 17 January). The themes are familiar: stinging criticism of a government obsessed by one topic and which has achieved little else; in the US, troop deployments in an embattled Washington; a president threatening legal action; in Ireland, sho...

Joys of walking | Snowdrops | Central heating | Salisbury Cathedral Dog walkers in Queen’s Park, Glasgow. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Dog walkers in Queen’s Park, Glasgow. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Letters Tue 19 Jan 2021 11.18 EST Last modified on Tue 19 Jan 2021 12.19 EST Ben Olins says that he does not understand people “who walk the same route over and over” (The joy of steps: 20 ways to give purpose to your daily walk, 18 January). One aspect of repeated...