It’s a great honour to be called a mugwump | Brief letters

Post EU rail franchises | Mugwump | Family relationships and language | E-readersJohn Draper makes a good point about competitive tendering for rail franchises within EU member states – but isn’t the main point about renationalising the railways that there won’t be any new franchises to bid for (Letters, 26 April)! Whether Caroline Lucas wants Britain to remain in the EU or not is therefore irrelevant.
Paul Tattam
Chinley, Derbyshire• Think before you speak, foreign secret