Towers of Babel | Art criticism | Trusting a man with a beard | Beards at the border | Cows in the heat
Your article (Turn empty London office blocks into ‘late-night party zones’, report suggests, 13 July) misses the real opportunity to promote using those ghastly, unsightly Towers of Babel for something useful: housing. Forget partying, think existing. Let’s redeem the disasters of the past and give people somewhere to live.
Janet Tomlinson
Andover, Hampshire
• Jonathan Jones says: “This is where celebrity artists get it wrong: they think art is fun but art is suffering and madness” (Ed Sheeran’s Pollock homage has energy but no feeling or truth, 9 July). Is he not confusing “art” with “art criticism”?
John Warburton
Edinburgh






