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The Guardian
13-07-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
To beard or not to beard is a hot topic
As Toby Wood (Letters, 10 July) notes, beard lovers – pogonophiles in the Greek – deserve recognition, and Polly Hudson's hirsute solidarity is welcome. There is a note of caution in the UK heatwave. While in Algiers in April 1882, Karl Marx had his iconic beard shaved because the weather was too hot. Just now beard wearers and allies may love facial hair a little FlettOrganiser, Beard Liberation Front Whatever her views on the Parthenon statues (Liz Truss and hard-right group accused of scaremongering over Parthenon marbles, 11 July), Liz Truss is surely the most outstanding figure in British politics when it comes to lost Lewinski-GrendeSwaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire Readers may be interested to know that a full-size replica of the Bayeux tapestry, made in the late 19th century by members of the Leek Embroidery Society in Staffordshire, is on permanent display in the Bayeux Gallery of Reading Museum (Bayeux tapestry to return to Britain for first time in 900 years, 8 July).Sue GilbertCharlton Horethorne, Somerset I bet I wasn't the only one who, for just a second, read the headline in the print edition on your article and thought you were referring to Ozzy (Osborne was on No 10 shortlist to be US envoy, says PM's biographer, 8 July).Mike ShiptonSilverton, Devon ''Train wreck': president mocks Musk for bankrolling new party', says the headline on your report in the print edition of 8 July. Surely the colon is superfluous?Mike PenderCardiff 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.
The Guardian
10-07-2025
- Lifestyle
- The Guardian
Let's not split hairs over life with a beard
Polly Hudson's article (Beards may be dirtier than toilets – but all men should grow one, 3 July) is correct on the whole, except in the assumption that all men can do so. When I was a child, my dad spent a two-week holiday not shaving and ended up with a five o'clock shadow. By coincidence, my uncle grew a bushy forest on his face during the same period. Faced with my uncle's success, my dad promptly shaved his own attempt off and it was never spoken of again. Years later, I was bewildered by my dad's really quite hostile reaction when I successfully gave facial hair a go for the first time. Then I GrayBirmingham My late husband had a beard when we met in 1966, and I only saw him clean-shaven in old photographs. It was a full beard, befitting a geologist who had spent time in the field without a mirror. It was regarded with suspicion by Scottish farmers; one even offered to shear him with his sheep. At the time, beards were associated with artists and revolutionaries. My aunts, on first meeting Jack, summed him up as 'very nice, considering he has a beard'. Susan TreagusDidsbury, Manchester Polly Hudson writes: 'All men look better with beards and I will die on that hill.' Perhaps Keith Flett's Beard Liberation Front might consider awarding her honorary life membership. Toby WoodPeterborough Most, if not all, men have beards. It's just that the intelligent ones don't bother to scrape hair from their face every day. A pointless MacleodAberporth, Ceredigion 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.
