Last month, Barney Ronay said Liverpool’s manager, Arne Slot, had the look of a “prosperous provincial butcher here to pick up a civic award”. This month (23 February), he said Slot had “the air of a friendly neighbourhood greengrocer who juggles apples on his forearm”. Next month, the jolly baker?
Peter Kaan
Exeter
• “Claims about the Church of England’s demise are exaggerated” says the headline on Rev Stephen Gardiner’s letter (18 February). Yet average weekly attendance for Church of England services has crashed from 995,000 in 2013 to 693,000 in 2023. Perhaps as well as working from home more, people are praying from home?
David Duell
Durham
• I am among the 28% of over-75s who do not have a smartphone (‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners, 22 February). So I’m losing out on special deals in a multitude of areas. On the other hand, I am saving countless hours which I might be tempted to waste on this technology that dominates so many people’s time every day.
Jennifer Rees
Cardiff
• I think my parents were secretly proud when my convent school report included the comment: “Asks too many questions” (Letters, 23 February).
Christine Shuttleworth
London
• Surely the last word on school reports: in the late 1970s my biology teacher simply wrote “Idle”. I would have written in earlier, but I just couldn’t be bothered.
Philip Collier
Bolton
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