• DAVID Sulkin OBE predicts that sterling will “dive” as an inevitable consequence of leaving the EU, (Are the Brexiteers running scared? October 5). Buy US dollars and Treasury bills, currently yielding more than three per cent: problem solved.

Sore losers spend so much effort convincing themselves that those of us on the winning side owe them a second (sic) referendum. We had one and it wasn’t a rehearsal. The matter is settled and it’s called democracy. Some things you have to be grown up enough to deal with.

When the late Bobby Stokes scored his Wembley goal in 1976 he was clearly offside. Everyone agrees but no one is bleating for a replay. No calls for a People’s Cup Final. Another week another football metaphor.

STEPHEN SOUTHAM
Mildmay Grove North, N1