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Polly Toynbee’s advice to Sinn Féin, “The oath? Surely they can mouth it and shrug” (Opinion, 28 November), may be reinforced by Patrick O’Brian’s sentiment (admittedly embedded in fiction) in the Aubrey/Maturin opener Master and Commander: “He would have called an oath a childish thing – otiose if voluntary and rightly to be evaded or ignored if imposed.”
Tony Rimmer
Lytham St Annes, Lancashire

• We were amused and appalled to read that the provost of St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow has suggested that the Church of England might recognise same-sex marriage more quickly if people prayed for Prince George to be gay (Report, 1 December).

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