Reading your article (Tory MPs contributing to growing hostility to drag events, report says, 22 June) makes one wonder if any of them have thought to compare the damage done to children by a pantomime at Christmas as opposed to that created by the 13 years of persistent pantomime we’ve all had to endure. Ian Stone Luton, Bedfordshire To Amelia Tait’s evisceration of sourdough (Back off, sourdough! All hail the glorious return of the sliced white loaf, 22 June), I should like to add the epidemic that is the sickly, misplaced sweetness of the brioche bun – now served as standard with burgers in any bar or bistro where the chairs and tables are deliberately mismatched. Ed Collard West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire Back in 1984, my six-year-old daughter went to the birthday party of one of her classmates. This girl’s mother regularly baked her own delicious brown bread. When she asked her daughter what she’d like for her party food, she requested sliced white bread as a treat. Hilary Stokes Cambridge In his analysis of the Bank of England inflation strategy, Phillip Inman stated that this is the 13th consecutive rise (Report, 22 June). I was reminded of that much-quoted definition of insanity: “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. David Ellis Comberton, Cambridgeshire