The news cycle | Horse-mounting steps | Quakers | Winter 1963
I too have rooted out an old issue of the Guardian (Letters, 17 January). The themes are familiar: stinging criticism of a government obsessed by one topic and which has achieved little else; in the US, troop deployments in an embattled Washington; a president threatening legal action; in Ireland, shortages of food; in northern England, factory closures. This is the Manchester Guardian for 3 August 1864.
Jon Bardsley
Manchester
• I’ve not checked out the local explorer bingo challenge myself (Letters, 19 January), but certainly will. I know that horse-mounting steps can be found at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
Maggie Jones
Blackheath, London