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Thank you, Geoffrey Robertson (My hero, Review, 23 April). I've never been a hero-worshipper but your piece about John Cooke, the man who prosecuted Charles I, changed my mind. This was a man with courage, vision and principle, all of which are pretty much non-existent in today's leaders. A man far ahead of his time to encourage those of us who would wish, like him, to see a nation on its feet instead of on its knees, salivating at the spectacle to take place at the end of this week.
Carol Knight
Tisbury, Wiltshire
• Eight inspiring and moving pages about the wonders of human evolution (G2, 25 April), swiftly followed by a lot of mithering about what to wear for the royal wedding ... why did we bother?
Stephen Hackett
Salisbury, Wiltshire
• Teaching basic feminist theory some 30 years ago, I showed students a children's book on human evolution which was illustrated exclusively by images of men. How little changes. The Guardian's evolution special suggests pictorially that though apes may be female, our human ancestors were all male, and evolved into Stephen Moss and a group of Amish boys. Special evolution indeed.
Gail Cunningham
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
• Joe Queenan (Film&Music, 22 April) writes that Eric Bana's film contemporaries such as Johnny Depp almost never die on screen, or if they do, it's usually in a blaze of glory. Check out Depp's deaths in Public Enemies, Dead Man, The Brave and The Libertine (minus nose, of syphilis!). Not much glory there ... though Captain Jack lives for ever.
Jill Mortiboys
Stowmarket, Suffolk
• I don't know what all this fuss is about (Letters, 25 April). There are sparrows in my garden every day of the year.
Alan Sparrow
Elmswell, Suffolk
• Green shoots of economic recovery, deader than a doornail, Catford, 24 April.
Gerry Bernstein
London
• Torres goal, London, 23 April.
Dermot Drysdale
Horsmonden, Kent
