The Great British Bake Off will become the icing on Channel 4’s cake

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The Great British Bake Off’s move from the BBC to Channel 4 is not going down well

Top Gear zoomed off into the Amazon sunset. The Great British Bake Off is to become the icing on the Channel 4 cake. Will this series be Strictly Come Dancing’s last tango with auntie?

The future isn’t looking too bright for our beloved broadcasting corporation.

Judi Martin Aberdeenshire

So it’s part of the BBC’s role to spend money developing concepts that would be too risky for commercial broadcasters, then roll over when the successful ones are picked off. This puts me in mind of an old blues number called “Tired of Fattening Frogs for Snakes”, sung by a woman who is fed up with bringing on men to be decent lovers only to lose them to someone younger or sexier. As a licence fee-payer, I feel rather the same way.

Jim Trimmer Kingston upon Thames

By tomorrow I expect to see that David Cameron has been blamed for the BBC losing The Great British Bake Off.

Ralph Massie Elmfield

Moving Parliament permanently

I read Molly Scott Cato’s article (“MPs are being turfed out of Parliament – let’s hope they’re not allowed back in”, The Independent 13 September) and immediately agreed with everything she suggested.

But it won't happen.

There are too many vested interests in maintaining the status quo in Parliament: the party machines of both ‘main’ parties; the lobbies and hangers-on; the Whitehall mob of civil servants and all the powers that be.

I'm sorry if I sound extremely cynical – but that’s what BBC selling Bake Off does to you.

Peter Cole Kirkwhelpington

Grammar schools are turning back the clock

The least I expect of my Prime Minister is that she will use evidence-based reasoning to form her policies. Unfortunately, she states that her proposed school reforms will bring about the exact opposite of what decades of scientific studies have concluded. Very worrying.

David Rose Sutton Coldfield

There is little or no proof that opening grammar schools will fulfil the aims being set out by the Government. However, there is plenty of empirical evidence to prove that by reducing GCSE class sizes to 15 pupils benefits far more students. The cost would be minimal, the benefits unlimited, for many people.

Paul Bailey Rochdale

Forward to the past with Lady Home Counties. Grammar school proposals do not make sense in the context of academies, free schools and local education authority schools and are downright outrageous in the context of the current education crisis. A crisis manifest in degraded remuneration for teachers, a growing child population, the inability of LEAs to plan capacity rationally, recruitment issues where many schools are dependent on supply teachers, teacher workload and the 60 hour week – especially in primary schools. And last but not least, the real terms reduction in capitation. Anyone who is in touch with school management knows virtually all are operating on a hand-to-mouth basis. It is this that is relevant to improving the education of all children and not just a select elite of 15 per cent.

Patrick Newman Stevenage