Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Expanding variety at Royal Albert Hall | Brief letters

<strong>Brief letters: </strong>Sumo wrestling | A duke from Yorkshire | ‘Modest’ royal homes | Doing a Postecoglou | What about Trump? | Time to shine

Expanding variety at Royal Albert Hall | Brief letters

It’s good to see the variety of entertainment available at the Royal Albert Hall expanding (More rice, bigger chairs and reinforced toilets: sumo wrestling comes to London, 15 October). I know little about sumo wrestling, but I assume it’s not over till the fat man falls?Richard BarnardWivenhoe, Essex • Perhaps King Charles can show he is a true monarch of the people by appointing one of his subjects from Yorkshire as a replacement Duke of York (Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after ‘discussion with king’, 17 October). May I nominate David Hockney or Alan Bennett?Colin BurkeCartmel, Cumbria • It’s a minor point regarding Simon Jenkins’ column on the royal family (16 October), but I’d hardly call an eight-bedroom, Grade II-listed Georgian mansion in Windsor Great Park and prospective home of the future king a “modest house”.John De la CruzLondon • Is this a new benchmark for shortest time in big jobs (Ange Postecoglou sacked by Nottingham Forest after 40 days as head coach, 18 October)? Has “Doing a Postecoglou” now replaced “Doing a Truss”?Phil SinnottCrosby, Liverpool • A whole article about narcissistic personality disorder (15 October) without mentioning Donald Trump?Margaret Squires St Andrews, Fife • Should the sun have been shining out of his arse (Trump hates this ‘super bad’ photo of him in Time magazine. I almost feel sympathy … almost, 15 October)?Andy Smith London • Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.