The Evans-Goodwin study into the far right (Report, 9 March) is bedevilled by its methodology. The study is not of the party, but of those who self-define as supporters. This is problematic, as the EDL leadership, to avoid the taint of the BNP, have in the past called on their supporters to claim to be Ukip. Ukip bars membership to EDL activists, so the study is fatally compromised. Goodwin is an expert on the BNP and, as the party implodes, he needs to broaden his interests. Building a new bogeyman of Ukip suits that purpose.
Nigel Farage MEP
Leader, Ukip
• It was said that Norman St John Stevas (Obituary, 6 March) once asked Margaret Thatcher if he could leave a cabinet meeting early, as he was attending an opera at Covent Garden that evening. "But Norman," she said, " I'm going to the same opera and I am not leaving early." "But, Margaret, it takes me so much longer to dress," he replied.
Mike Higgins
Swansea
• Claiming Allen Stanford's unfitness to stand trial as a result of memory loss following a prison attack (Report, 7 March), his lawyer defined it as "extensive retrograde amnesia" that left him "completely amnestic to his life prior to the assault". We have a name for that here: the Ernest Saunders' defence.
Richard Carter
London
• For the perfect bacon sandwich (G2, March 8) nothing beats a Norwegian "fjordside fry-up". Wire the bacon rashers, wrapped in foil, on top of the engine exhaust manifold. Drive on for an hour or so – longer if you like it crispy – and eat while admiring the magnificent snow-covered mountains.
Terence Hall
Salford
• Oh dear, it's getting worse than I thought. Now they're going to make the trains run on time (Commuters warned of higher peak-time fares in rail shakeup, 9 March).
Robert McNulty
Manchester
• Cowdenbeath FC are known as "the Blue Brazil" (Letters, 9 March).
Jim Milne
Long Buckby, Northampton