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Top marks for the Bayeux tapestry | Brief letters

Rate that art | Panic buying | Rich pickings | JD Vance’s antichrist | Autumn’s arrival A five-star review of the Bayeux tapestry (The Bayeux tapestry: a stupefying, thrilling, horrifying...

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September 6, 2026
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Top marks for the Bayeux tapestry | Brief letters

King Charles, Queen Camilla, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron and Andy Burnham and his wife Marie-France van Heel at the Bayeux tapestry exhibition at the British Museum this month. Photograph: Richard Pohle/The Times/PA View image in fullscreen King Charles, Queen Camilla, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron and Andy Burnham and his wife Marie-France van Heel at the Bayeux tapestry exhibition at the British Museum this month. Photograph: Richard Pohle/The Times/PA Brief letters Bayeux tapestry Letters Top marks for the Bayeux tapestry Rate that art | Panic buying | Rich pickings | JD Vance’s antichrist | Autumn’s arrival

A five-star review of the Bayeux tapestry ( The Bayeux tapestry: a stupefying, thrilling, horrifying masterpiece that shakes the earth, 3 September ). Even creatives from nearly a thousand years ago are subject to the modern media’s determination to rate art. Still, they will be pleased to have impressed the Guardian. Andrew Vincent Westmancote, Worcestershire

While I understand Angela Eagle’s advice to “store … a bit of food that can keep you going for a while” ( Report, 3 September ), I fear that this will lead to the kind of panic buying that we had during Covid, when those who can, financially and physically, will stagger out of supermarkets laden with supplies, while those of us less fortunate will find shelves stripped bare. Perhaps we need to bring back rationing? Jean Austin Crawley, West Sussex

“Do the rich behave worse than the rest of us?” asks your report ( Rich people more likely to steal children’s sweets, finds Ig Nobel prize-winning study, 3 September ). How do you think they got rich? John Roberts London

Interested to hear that JD Vance would not be shocked “if the antichrist was walking among us” ( Report, 2 September ). Has he tried looking in the Oval Office? Chris Ainsworth Rawtenstall, Lancashire

Sure signs our summer of sunshine is over today ( Letters, 31 August ): raincoats, calendars and diaries for 2027 on sale, charity Christmas catalogues in the post and a shop-window display of Halloween pumpkins. Valerie Gidlow Faversham, Kent

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