Kemi Badenoch is the ideal dinner guest for Sherlock Holmes | Brief letters

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Kemi Badenoch, who believes that “lunch is for wimps” (

Report, 12 December

), would have been the ideal dinner guest at 221b Baker Street. Asked by Mrs Hudson when he would be pleased to dine, Sherlock Holmes – totally immersed in a case – replied: “Seven-thirty, the day after tomorrow.”

Tom Stubbs


Surbiton, London

• Perhaps it’s about time that the government introduced a regulator for faith bodies (

Archbishop of York says he acted as soon as legally possible in sexual abuse case, 16 December

). Can I suggest OfGod. Then again, considering the uselessness of Ofwat over the decades…

Roberto Zanconato


St Ives, Cornwall

• Anthony Isaacs suggests several C-words to replace the nebulous change (

Letters, 15 December

), but omits two that have escaped most political parties in recent decades: community and compassion.

John Ashby


Oxford

• Has anyone else noticed that the Guardian quick crossword seems to be getting harder just as the codeword is becoming easier (with three given letters instead of two)? Perhaps it is significant that Tuesday’s gave three of the letters in the word “idiot”.

Gordon Hetherington


Great Ayton, North Yorkshire

• Even before Roland Carse’s book (

Letters, 18 December

), we had the cartoonist Arthur Moreland’s Humours of History, with which my learned grandfather taught me all I can still remember of our island’s chronology. A late Victorian gem!

Mike Heath


Southbourne, West Sussex

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