"Last week, were you ... working as an employee?" asked the census (Question 26) yesterday (Unthinkable, 26 March). How different might the answers have been had the census been a week or so later, as thousands of public sector job losses take effect on Thursday?
Delia Koczwara
Manchester
• It shouldn't need a million signatures to change attitudes to RBS bonuses (Letters, 25 March). If a Dutch parliament, with a coalition government, can vote, as it did last week, to retrospectively tax ING and four other banks at a 100% rate on any bonuses they have paid since receiving state support, then we should demand our MPs vote in a similar fashion.
Mike Campbell
Bristol
• Further to Winnie Green's letter, shareholders of Royal Bank of Scotland, (a category that surely includes the government and many pension funds), can also vote against the motion approving the directors' remuneration report at the company's forthcoming AGM in Edinburgh, both by post and in person.
Eva Lawrence
St Albans, Hertfordshire
• How reassuring to know the United Arab Emirates, having sent troops to Bahrain to put down peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators, is now sending 12 aircraft to support armed rebels in Libya (Report, 25 March). At least we know who our friends are among the oppressive regimes in the Arab world.
Peter McKenna
Liverpool
• Given the number of more exotic birds living wild in London now (Letters, 26 March), perhaps it's time to resurrect Recipe no 3,082 from my 1915 Mrs Beeton. in the Australian cookery chapter, close to "Kangaroo Tail, Fricassee Of": "Parrot Pie: Take one dozen paraqueets ... (a small long-tailed tropical parrot)".
Jamie Newall
London
• Pictures of the week (26 March) includes Einstein, the world's smallest stallion, "celebrating his first birthday". No he isn't. He doesn't know it's his birthday. He's a horse.
Andrew Keogh
London