Iron ladies

SIR – Laura Kuenssberg (Letters, June 28) should listen to the interviews that Sir Jimmy Young did with Margaret Thatcher.

She would then learn that you don’t have to be rude and sneering to get the better of a politician, even one as formidable as Lady Thatcher. Philip Roberts Caernarfon, Gwynedd

SIR – Anyone who supports Partick Thistle football club and drinks Irnbru has to be a well-grounded person, so perhaps your correspondents could lay off Laura Kuenssberg. Supporting Thistle is burden enough for anyone. George Nicholson Bicester, Oxfordshire