Barbecues needn’t cost you a sausage | Brief letters
Simplicity over luxury | Sanctions on Iran | Strait answers | Charabanc comedy | Short yet Wapping
A barbecue for £4,500 (The rise of the luxury barbecue: the UK’s new outdoor cooking obsession, 19 June)? For years I have barbecued for family and friends using an upturned metal milk crate, a paving stone on top, four bricks and an old grill rack, with only the charcoal costing anything – and not a burnt sausage in sight. Maintenance free, it all stacks neatly behind the shed waiting for the next heatwave.
Andrew Keeley
Warrington, Cheshire
• I agree with Simon Jenkins that an end to sanctions on Iran would be a good outcome of the war (Trump thinks his freshly signed ceasefire deal is a victory. It is – for Iran, 18 June). As he says, opening up the country to the outside world is far more likely to dilute the regime’s grip on society than continued bombing. The same logic applies to Afghanistan.
Brendan O’Brien
London
