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Thursday, May 4, 2023

I’m not kidding: a goat is a gardener’s best friend | Brief letters

Gardening | Tuition fees | The coronation oath of allegiance | Moss threat

If Adrian Chiles’s garden really gets his goat (The unspoken truth about gardening? It is a relentless, unwinnable war, 4 May), then he should do just that – get a goat. It will clear the thicket in a trice, leaving only the most stubborn bushes for his shredder to devour. BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today might commission a feature.
Jonathan Hauxwell
Cross Hills, North Yorkshire

• Regarding Keir Starmer’s views on university tuition fees (Report, 3 May), has he considered a graduate tax? This could spread student debt over a lifetime of employment, with the better paid graduates paying a higher rate and the badly paid or unemployed paying little or nothing.
Marilyn Mason
London

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