MPs' Boozing Culture: Letters on Westminster's Drinking Habits
MPs' Boozing Culture: Letters on Westminster Drinking Habits

The visible smell of booze? Westminster's drinking culture has troubled the Green MP Hannah Spencer. Photograph: stone / getty images

Letters: Visible sign of MPs' boozing is comical

Westminster drinking culture | Cocking things up | Fragile over-60s? | Victory over Trump | Jobs for Neets | Heavy lifting

The Labour MP Alex Sobel says he has never 'actually seen anyone smell of booze' (Hannah Spencer riles fellow MPs with attack on parliament's drinking culture, 27 April). That's a relief, otherwise I would have wondered whether we were all living in a strip cartoon in The Dandy or Beano.

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Pete Lavender, Woodthorpe, Nottinghamshire

Now we know why they make such a cock-up of everything.

Michael Fuller, Ampthill, Bedfordshire

In an otherwise sensible article, Nick Bender tells us 'Falling is a huge concern for anyone over 60' (All the right moves! 17 personal trainers on the exercise they always recommend – from planks to face pulls, 29 April). My bootcamp, and most of my 60-something friends, would disagree. How old is Nick, and how many 60-year-olds does he know?

Carolyn Waterworth, Surbiton, London

Iranian master tactician leaves Trump snookered (Vafaei launches epic comeback to stun Trump on day of great Crucible drama, 27 April). Who says sport and politics don't mix?

Michael Crapper, Whitchurch, Hampshire

With such a fecund pool of 900,000 Neets (UK has wealthy Europe's 'third-highest' rate of young adults not in work or study, 28 April), isn't it time the British armed forces ramped up their recruitment efforts?

Tim Brown, Melton, Suffolk

Tiramisu means 'pick me up'. Did anyone oblige with the 440.6-metre creation (Two tonnes of mascarpone and 19,000 eggs: chefs make world's longest tiramisu – video, 27 April)?

Dr John Doherty, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

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