Agatha anathema

Agatha Christie
The late Agatha Christie. Would she be turning in her grave at the news that a new Poirot novel is to be written? Photograph: AP

Agatha anathema

Zoe Williams says banks don't charge enough for current accounts, which are expensive to administer (Comment, 19 September). But they get the use of the money you deposit, don't they? Effectively, you're lending them money – a service for which they exact very high charges when it's them doing the lending. The theory is that they lend it to businesses – but that isn't happening.
Ruth Brandon
London

Apropos the Syrian conflict, Simon Jenkins (Putin preens himself but the pressure on him is intense, 18 September) could have quoted John Stuart Mill's words in On Liberty: "I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilised."
Dr John Doherty
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Agatha Christie would be turning in her grave at news there is to be a new Poirot novel written (Report, 4 September). While I'm sure Sophie Hannah will do an excellent job, the reason Agatha killed her detective off in Curtain, was to prevent such future spinoffs after her death. Her daughter Rosalind fervently protected the integrity of Agatha's work during her lifetime. It is so sad that such integrity no longer appears to be the cornerstone of Agatha Christie Ltd.
Cathy Cook
Author of the Agatha Christie Miscellany

On the subject of cutting each other's hair (Letters, 19 September), the locus classicus is the neat line from the Roman comic playwright Plautus, "vix vivunt lavanda mutando" – they eke out a miserable existence by taking each other's washing in.
Michael Bulley
Chalon-sur-Saône, France

A good point from Percival Turnbull on the pope's choice of car (Letters, 14 September) but too late, I'm afraid, as the Renault is a Fiat accompli.
Malcolm Nicoll
Brechin, Angus

Maybe (Yes, David Cameron, 'Yid' really is a race-hate word, 17 September) Spurs supporters, banned from chanting the Y-word, would consider wearing Y-fronts on the outside of their trousers, John Major-style?
A Kossoff
London
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