AND ANOTHER THING...

■ M Reader says the ‘mostly black people’ who held a street party in Brixton – which left up to 30 police injured when they broke it up – should have instead joined the thousands of ‘mostly white’ people on the Essex beach, where they would have been left unbothered (MetroTalk, Mon). I agree. The Angel Town estate party should have partied on Southend beach. They then would not be disturbing the residents of a residential area. Not everybody wants blaring music and hundreds of people ten yards from their bedroom after finishing a 15-hour shift at work.

Rupert, London

■ As a regular theatregoer of 40 years I totally agree with everything said by Dame Helen Mirren and your chief theatre critic Claire Allfree about the urgent need to support Britain’s theatre industry, so devastated by the coronavirus crisis (Metro, Tue). Nothing can replace the atmosphere as the lights go down and the curtain opens. David Sandler, London

■ My girlfriend is living and working away in Devon for a year and we’ve not seen each other since before lockdown. Now that the rules allow it, I’m driving down there next week. Here’s the thing – if there are idiots enough here in London or down there in the south-west, whose behaviour and pig-headedness means she or I are placed back under lockdown as has happened in Leicester, to say I wouldn’t be happy wouldn’t do it justice. I may get so furious I’ll need an eye test. Paul, London