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Lookalike
Sir,
Sir, were our two favourite redheads separated at birth? And what will the Epstein files reveal about his relationship with a scheming, malevolent doll?
SIMON REES.
Beautiful irony
Sir, Am I perhaps the 94th person to wonder what the noise was when my copy of Eye 1658 was delivered today, only to find when I took it from the envelope that it was the ironymeter breaking. Congratulations to whoever came up with the cover. It is absolutely brilliant and very appropriate.
DEAN CLAYTON.
…Pointing out hypocritical tropes whilst causing a reader to spit out his tea in a moment of painful hilarity is a feat very few are able to achieve in this humourless world. But the cover of Eye 1658 succeeded hands down.
DAVE GREEN, Morebattle.
False flag operation
Sir,
Your letter writer David Carter (“Bald action”, Letters, Eye 1658) chastises your (well, your cartoon’s) portrayal of the flag flyers as skinhead thugs but doesn’t offer his own opinion of their motivations.
For me, if someone puts up a flag or similar on their own house or in their own garden, then they are legitimately using their right to free speech to voice their opinion. If people or organised groups put up flags anonymously on public property, then they are attempting to imply a general opinion that they cannot possibly know exists. I personally find this goes against everything I believe in and can fully understand why some groups feel threatened by it and others ashamed of it. I’m in the latter group.
I’m sure the people who put the flags on lamp posts are not all England-supporting skinhead thugs, and I’m equally sure that some of them are.
MIKE LONG, Groby, Leics.
Lambeth balk
Sir,
A small correction to your piece on Steve Reed (HP Sauce, Eye 1658): the Kerslake review of affordable housing in Lambeth did not find that “many millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money [was] wasted”. That quote came from a Lambeth Green Party press release from around that time.
BRIAN BRADY, media manager, London Borough of Lambeth.
Averted Eyes
Sir,
I hear from certain shopkeepers in the tiny Highland parish of Ardgay and Culrain that sales of your esteemed publication may have seen a spike. This was likely thanks to the article “Manor war” (p22, Eye 1657), which apparently resulted in the self-styled Lady Carbisdale (of the above parish) attempting to purchase all and any copies available to locals.
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