Geoffrey Wheatcroft (Letters,15 September) rightly comments that Lord Haw-Haw became a wartime figure of fun: no doubt others of my advanced age may remember tuning in occasionally with their parents to his evening broadcasts, for a laugh. He sometimes used information picked up from the British media, and despite its censorship. For me his finest hour came the night after the press had reported that there had been an air raid in which bombs had dropped at random. He duly informed us that “Random has been bombed”.[br]Eugene Byrne[br]London• When the Labour party leadership election opened Jeremy Corbyn was a 100-1 rank outsider with the bookmakers. Now I note that the average odds being offered on him becoming the next prime minister are 8-1. Given that bookmakers are rarely inaccurate,the message they are now sending out is that he is 12.5 times more likely to become prime minister than he was leader of the Labour party. gather your money on quick.
John Holroyd
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Source: theguardian.com