The Two Cultures and Bobby Charlton | Brief letters

CP Snow synchronicity | Eating river rats in Norfolk and France | Rugby: women in, Scotland out | Female leaders chosen at birth | The White Queen’s dictumCP Snow’s essay on The Two Cultures (Editorial, 21 November) was published in the New Statesman on 6 October 1956 – also the day of Bobby Charlton’s Manchester United debut and my wife Lucy’s birth. For what it’s worth, I’m unrepentantly on the FR Leavis side of the debate: science can learn far more from the humanities than the other way round.David KynastonLondon• During the 1960s coypu eradication campaign in the Norfolk Broads, my mother…