Sunak screwed across the board | Animal behaviour | Spot the ball | Fresher ingredients | Raac in Ancient Rome
Another German word for Rishi Sunak’s situation (Letters, 3 September) is zugzwang, a term in chess for a poor position, where any move would make the current bad situation even worse.
Christopher Pankhurst
Winchester
• Zoe Williams’ father, who, she writes, hated Carl Jung (5 September) would have appreciated the cartoon in which one rat says to another: “I’ve really got this psychologist conditioned; every time I press this lever he gives me food.”
David Cooper
Nafferton, East Yorkshire
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