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Re John Lennon saying the Beatles were “bigger than Jesus” (Letters, 16 July), I am reminded of the row over the Rutles’ Ron Nasty and his interview with a slightly deaf journalist who misquoted him as having said: “We’re bigger than God.” He’d actually said “bigger than Rod [Stewart]”. This led to outrage and a rise in Pre-Fab Four record sales. “People were buying them just to burn them,” the Rutles’ film All You Need Is Cash revealed.
Don Gould
Fareham, Hampshire
• I note that the days are getting milliseconds longer (Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds, 15 July). Is the Treasury looking into how this increase in productive time can be used to promote the government’s policy of economic growth? Perhaps there might be a statement in the next budget about this issue.
Paresh Motla
Thame, Oxfordshire
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