Andrew Brown's suggestion (Cameron does God, 5 April) that the 2 million people in church every Sunday "dwarfs the membership of all political parties and trade unions" is misleading in the case of unions. Presumably his figure for church members covers a range of denominations. This, then, should be compared to total trade union membership. According to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK trade unions have around 6.5 million members. Total union membership comfortably exceeds weekly churchgoers.
Michael Somerton
Hull
• Cash for supper, MPs' expenses fraud, Mr Fox's "special adviser", phone hacking, Sky News hacking email, bent coppers, racist Met-men, Virgin Atlantic selling VIP names (Report, 6 April), Amazon tax dodging, flogging the NHS to the friends of the government, unrepentant casino bankers. And they tell us that Italy is worse. God help Italy.
Peter Nicklin
Newcastle upon Tyne
• News from Nowhere, Liverpool's radical and community bookshop, pays all its corporation tax (Amazon: £7bn sales, no UK corporation tax, 5 March). It is run by a women's co-operative, so now you can shop with the real Amazons.
Mandy Vere
Liverpool
• Oh Tim, I haven't laughed so much for years (Tim Dowling: Why do men hate me for being handsome?, G2, 5 April). Thank you. Flowers and champagne to follow.
Jenny Moir
Chelmsford, Essex
• I am 87, but I must be one of the few who remembers the voice of Kathleen Ferrier (In praise of, 6 April). I think it was 1951 when I went to hear her give a memorable performance in The Messiah at the Albert Hall.
Iris Philpott
Kenilworth, Warwickshire
• The toponymic redundancy of River Avon and Penmore Hill (Letters, 5 April) is exceeded in the Peak District by Longdendale Valley, whose original Anglo-Saxon long-dene, plus Danish dale and modern English addition provide us with long-valley-valley-valley.
David Mallon
Glossop, Derbyshire