Entrée interdite Jaw-dropping

SIR – There were chaotic scenes at the Port of Calais on Thursday (report, July 22) and only two French passport booths open, despite there being six check-in desks. Ferry check-in took three minutes; getting though passport control another 90.

Michael Eversden

Deal, Kent

SIR – Oxford University is paying Professor Charles Spence (report, July 22) a good salary to tell us that we would enjoy our food more if we ate with our mouths wide open (disgusting to watch) and with our hands (disgusting to watch and to do).

Philip Ryder-davies

Wickham Market, Suffolk

SIR – Being encouraged to eat noisily, with an open mouth showing partly mashed food, is indicative of the current trend to maximise selfsatisfaction and disregard the effect on anyone else.

Is this kind or even wise?

Field Mcintyre

London SW3