Cracking up

According to the polls, inheritance tax has overtaken health, welfare, education and security as the biggest concern of voters (Comment, October 9). To those of us working in the voluntary sector, the main worry of most families is keeping a roof over their heads, not having in excess of £300,000 to their name.
Val Hince
Leighton Buzzard, Buckinghamshire

An "authentic" Italian restaurant chain (Report, October 8) sounds as convincing as a vegetarian Tex-Mex. There is nothing less Italian than chains. If Jamie Oliver really believes "there are some little places, privately owned by dedicated people, who are doing a good job", why steamroll them with a huge competing chain? He could, for instance establish an "Oliver-approved" certification, which would reduce the fears of risk-averse British customers and convince them to enter such little places.
Guglielmo Meardi

Your report on Polish bus drivers in the UK (Financial, October 6) lists First Group's UK driver vacancies and the monthly wage for a driver in Poland. A shame you omitted one significant number - the lamentable pay of a UK bus driver. By squeezing wages and increasing working hours, greedy companies like First Group have induced the high staff turnover that makes them dependent on imported labour.
Tom Cornish

Is it just me, or is there a certain irony in the Communication Workers Union taking out an advertisement (October 9) urging readers to write to their local MPs and the Royal Mail's management in support of the postal strike?
Dr Stuart Dunn (via email)
Reading, Berkshire

Thank you Doris Salcedo (Eyewitness, Tate Modern, October 9). The dramatic cracks in the interior walls of my house which are a daily reproach are, in fact, works of art. Problem solved.
Mary Stiff

The first album by Henry Cow, Legend, has a sock on the cover (Letters, October 8). Quite a feat.
Jim Green
Teddington, Middlesex