Dogs, cats, robins and ducking the question | Brief letters

Jeremy Hunt | Guardian cleans up | Top tabloid | Robin’s nest | Risque place names

Polly Toynbee’s article (The Tories knew there would be an NHS winter crisis but did nothing, theguardian.com, 3 January) notes that Jeremy Hunt “sent out a civil servant, Prof Keith Willett, director of acute care [to be interviewed on the radio], because he couldn’t be asked the crucial political question”. Is “couldn’t be asked” another of the Guardian’s famous spelling mistakes?
Alan Gavurin
London

• It’s good to discover we share people’s childish pleasures (Letters, 4 January). We clear up after our dog using a piece of Guardian broadsheet, instead of a plastic poo-bag. It’s surprisingly effective, better for the environment and rubs the faces of the worst people in the world right in it. I notice a former Trump aide on the front page of today’s paper. Looking forward to tomorrow’s walk. Bigly.
Sue Western
Bristol

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