Pick of the week’s correspondence

I’ve just returned from three magical days in the Lake District. Craggy mountains, mist over the fells, and the gentle hum of a Herdwick sheep or two. I stayed near Hill Top, once home to Beatrix Pott

Jonathan Clark links the decline of popular aphorisms to a disappearing shared moral code

Michael Henderson on Radio

The wisdom of Bertie Wooster

Karishma Patel , a former BBC journalist, attended the counter march to the far right’s Unite the Kingdom rally