Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are not ‘strongmen’ | Brief letters

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Can we stop referring to Donald Trump and especially Nigel Farage as “strongmen” (

Letters, 16 January

). My great-uncle Joe was a strong man, hewing tons of coal from a 3ft seam at Dean and Chapter Colliery. Despite his dressing-up-box farmer’s attire, I doubt Farage has ever soiled his hands.

Jim McManners


Trimdon Grange, County Durham

• I sympathise with Helen Evans about the number of photos of Donald Trump in the Guardian (

Letters, 17 January

). But I have a solution to this problem. I select them to put on the kitchen floor at night for the puppy to pee on.

Helen Owen


Whitcliffe, Shropshire

• In 2015, the late and much-missed

Michele Hanson wrote

: “I now need a big, black, felt-tip pen beside me in the mornings when I’m reading my paper, so that I can quickly blot out any image of George Osborne … On Sunday, I had to blot out Donald Trump as well.” I often reflect on that piece of advice when picking up my newspaper.

Deborah Sheridan


Finchingfield, Essex

• If you can’t make it to Paris (

David Hockney unveils unseen work for major Paris retrospective, 20 January

), and even if you can, Cartwright Hall in Bradford has a permanent Hockney gallery covering the artist’s whole career, from his student days through to more recent iPad experiments.

Warren Brown


Ilkley, West Yorkshire

• My response, when guilty of a minor misdemeanour, to the teacher’s “What’s the matter, Horne?” was “A mountain, sir” (

Letters, 21 January

). I thought this extremely witty, as did my classmates. I was put in detention and given 100 lines.

Bob Horne


Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire

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