Making an April fool of AI and Tory leaders

<span>‘A shock of blond hair standing on end…’ Latex model of Boris Johnson created for Spitting Image.</span><span>Photograph: Mark Harrison/Avalon/Britbox/AFP/Getty</span>
‘A shock of blond hair standing on end…’ Latex model of Boris Johnson created for Spitting Image.Photograph: Mark Harrison/Avalon/Britbox/AFP/Getty

“One AI image depicted a person holding a handbag, smoking a cigar, with a shock of blond hair standing on end” (Boris Thatchill? Tories turn to AI to find their perfect leader, print edition, 1 April). Sounds like an anti-Marx brother.
Toby Wood
Peterborough

• The Tory composite leader AI plan made for a good April Fools’ Day spoof, but it is not a new idea. In the 1990s, Norman Tebbit declared that the dream ticket would be his brain in Michael Heseltine’s body.
John Saxbee
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire

• Congratulations to Dr Ripa Lofol. After all that research and effort, she should be awarded an all-inclusive holiday on the wonderful island of San Serriffe. Virtually unchanged since 1977.
Gordon Cooper
Flackwell Heath, Buckinghamshire

• Surely it was Arving Alarf who was responsible for much of the research?
Nick Murphy
East Bridgford, Nottingham

• Having taken note of your advice (Have you washed your toothbrush lately? The surprising truth about how to keep your home truly clean, 30 March), I’m afraid I will now have to cancel my subscription to the Guardian as I will no longer have time to read it.
Tricia Meynell
Castle Carrock, Cumbria

• So fitting that Thames Water finds itself up shit creek (Thames Water on road to state rescue amid investor standoff with Ofwat, 28 March).
Pete Bibby
Sheffield

• Re “Businessman who donated £5m to Tories gets knighthood” (28 March), I’ve just sent them a fiver hoping for the same outcome.
Mick Beeby
Bristol

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