Suits you, sir

The last time I saw a suit as creased as that worn by George Entwistle for his introduction as director general of the BBC (Report, 5 July), it was an Armani rag being worn by John Birt. I hope this sartorial faux pas does not portend a new onslaught of Stalinism at the White Lubyanka that is BBC HQ. At least there was a sober tie, an absence of designer stubble and a reassuringly northern name, so perhaps we shall see some Yorkshire common sense at the helm of an organisation where broken dreams have washed up in the wake of the diamond jubilee flotilla.
Michael Cole
BBC TV reporter 1968-88

• While I commend your clear, detailed and largely accurate coverage of the likely discovery of the Higgs boson (Higgs was right, 5 July), I think it's stretching the English language to use the phrase "later on" to describe a lapse of a trillionth of a second.
Karl Sabbagh
Newbold on Stour, Warkwickshire

• Is the Higgs boson in any way connected to Duckworth Lewis?
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London

• We can all agree the Iraq war was "folly of the highest magnitude", says Rajiv Chandrasekaran (The war within a war, G2, 4 July). No, we can't. It was either a just or an unjust war. The term folly is disrespectful to those who suffered and died.
B O'Brien
London

• "Protesters spray Ukrainian riot police with teargas" (Report, 5 July). Can we not have more uplifting stories like this?
Brian Smith
Berlin

• Eric Sykes was a fine comedy writer (Report, 5 July), but I remember him, along with Jimmy Edwards, playing to government troops in white Rhodesia in the 1970s – in case anyone thinks these things are ever forgotten.
Eoin Dilon
Dublin

• It seems appropriate that the Vatican has an ATM (Letters, 5 July) as devout Catholics have long been practising the withdrawal method.
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton, West Midlands

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