Nigel Farage is a dreamer, just like David Steel | Brief letters

Preparing for government | Graham Rawle’s best work | Margaret Thatcher | The price of scans | Optical allusionsNigel Farage suggesting he can win the next general election (Report, 20 September) puts me in mind of David Steel’s direction to delegates at the Liberal assembly in 1981 to “Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government”. Here’s hoping that Farage’s prediction is equally accurate.Cherry WestonWolverhampton• My favourite among Graham Rawle’s Lost Consonants (Letters, 22 September) pictured the end of the Battle of Waterloo, with the caption “Napoleon defeated in his trousers”. I found it very funny, but it was embarrassing to have to explain it to my uncomprehending father-in-law at the time.Jem WhiteleyOxford Continue reading...