The failed search for Saint Theresa | Brief letters

New word | Female saints | Brexit bus | Obsolete submarines | Geordie slang | BlackbirdsCan I nominate the word “erg” as Uxbridge English Dictionary’s new definition of the year, viz: a group of shifty politicians moving aimlessly like a sand dune in the Sahara (Hardline Eurosceptics let out ‘collective gasp’ at May’s overtures to the opposition, 3 April).
Paul English
Belper, Derbyshire• I was passing the House of Commons the other evening, just after th