The Proms | Pétanque | Tennis | Social care | Jeff Bezos
Singing Rule, Brittania! and brandishing flags at the Proms may be a tasteless bit of musical comedy (‘Rewrite Rule, Britannia!’ What would you do with the Last Night of the Proms?, 10 September) but it is nothing like as dangerously delusional as ministers labelling everything from foodstuffs to railways as Great British. Presumably, this silly designation would be off-limits if Scotland unfortunately went independent?
Geoff Reid
Bradford, West Yorkshire
• If Zoe Williams’s pétanque match left her with a Zen-like calm, she wasn’t playing pétanque (Fit in my 40s: a game of petty and enjoyable malice? Step forward, pétanque, 11 September). For that you need the principles of Boris Johnson and the killer instinct of Captain Ahab.
John Lyon
Cholsey, Oxfordshire