Mavis Cheek points out (Country life is not a bed of roses, warns campaign, 29 February) that "scratch many countryside dwellers and you find a sexist, racist homophobe". As a lifelong peasant, I find such people, though rare, mostly moved to the countryside from urban dwelling, thinking they'd escape their fears by living here. We'd rather they hadn't.
Robin Mills
Dorchester, Dorset
• So the number of men suffering from bladder weakness would fill the stadium at Twickenham 44 times over, Lord's cricket ground 128 times over and Wembley 40 times (Media Planet supplement, 1 March). How many Olympic-size swimming pools would that be?
Peter Reading
Warwick
• The political slogan I like (Letters, 1 March) was used by Timothy West as the self-made businessman running for parliament in the TV series Brass: "Wage cuts – the only way to true prosperity!"
John Richards
St Ives, Cornwall
• The claim that "binge" comes from the name of a Belgian town (Letters, 28 February) is simply an invented etymology. Consulting the OED will tell you it comes from a dialect word meaning "soak".
John Illingworth
Bradford, Yorkshire
• I was relieved to read Felicity Cloake's recipe (Food, G2, 1 March) for steak and kidney pudding, as I had feared that the making of such dishes was falling into desuetude.
Ben Batten
Chesham, Buckinghamshire
• "It was the son wot run it"? (James Murdoch quits News International, 1 March).
Dr Pete Dorey
Cardiff University
• When will we learn the outcome of the Three Little Pigs' appeal (Get the whole picture, 1 March)?
Derek Wheatley
Isleworth, Middlesex