Asparagus for all, OK, but let the dames go first | Letters

Vince Cable, collaborator | Food bank delicacies | Women in business | Subeditors | Podcasts | Tiny carnivoresVince Cable (Progressive MPs must fight Corbyn's hard line on the EU, 28 July) criticises the Labour leader for collaborating with the right, and references Ramsay MacDonald "propping up a Conservative-dominated government committed to austerity". Remind me again what Vince Cable and Nick Clegg were doing between 2010 and 2015.Gerry WyldSlough, Berkshireo Re Trevor Harley's comment about the logic of free trade "making everyone aspire to asparagus" (Letters, 29 July), during my last visit to the food bank, I was supplied with - among other things - a jar of grilled asparagus. Presumably abject poverty is no longer a barrier to compulsory middle-class aspiration? How gloriously "egalitarian".Martin FradleyWorthing, West Sussex Continue reading...