The archbishop of Canterbury calls for a law to make the super-rich spend a couple of hours each year with the poor (Report, 22 April) to remind the privileged few that "Power exists … so that ordinary people may be treasured and looked after, especially those who don't have the resources to look after themselves." As one of the "ordinary" people I find this insulting. I resent being cast as somehow inadequate, needing to be looked after (treasured!) by the privileged few. In a grossly unequal society the archbishop would be better advised to reflect on how "resources" might be removed from the grasp of the few and shared more fairly with the many. God save us from his patronising medieval idea that what the rich need is a conscience pricked by contact with the common poor and what the poor need is the patronage of the rich!
Dave Evans
Leeds
• Those who decry "Islamophobia" ought to complain instead about "Christophobia", a genuine problem rather than a contrived one. This is clearly evident from the fact that not only has the Piss Christ photograph been shown in your newspaper (Report, 19 April), so too has Chris Ofili's offensive "art" of the Virgin Mary, while no newspapers or TV news programmes I have seen have shown the Danish cartoons which prompted murders by Muslims across the world. If you would admit you won't print the cartoons because you are scared of being murdered by fanatics, that would be refreshingly honest instead of pretending your refusal comes out of some kind of heightened sensitivity to the feelings of others.
Tony Tortora
Harrogate
• Many of us in the north have our supper just before bedtime (Angela Hartnett's midweek suppers, G2, 21 April). Can we have an inspiring recipe for cocoa and biscuits ? Various sorts of fish, goat's cheese, beetroot and chorizo are not really appealing or digestible late at night.
Mu Tucker
Leeds
• Cuckoo, in my clock, Westcliff-on-Sea, any day you like (Letters, 22 April).
Dean Trotter
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex
• Dolphins, Morecambe Bay, 18 April.
Joan Barnett
Silverdale, Lancashire