I was surprised that your feature (‘What did I just watch?’ The TV shows that utterly baffle us – but we can’t switch off, 20 January) did not include a mention of the popular show News at Ten. When I started watching this years ago, the plotlines more or less made sense, but recently they’ve become increasingly deranged, particularly since the introduction of the weirdly orange-coloured character, “Donald”. However, like many people, I am glued to the show with a mixture of horror and fascination.
Clare Griffel
Bristol
• Maybe we should forget the peace prize and award Donald Trump the Nobel prize in physics for his ability to distort reality?
Tom Stewart
Romsey, Hampshire
• As President Trump is getting weirder by the minute, could someone just check the spelling of his “Bored of Peace” committee?
Ian Grieve
Steyning, West Sussex
• I didn’t think my daily newspaper would ever cost £3.20. But this is not a complaint – not when Richard Smyth’s column (Country diary, 21 January) arrives with such erudition, poetry and joy.
John Clarke
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
• What is the most northerly instance in the UK of the perception of “south” (Letters, 20 January)? One prime candidate would be one of Scotland’s most northerly counties, Sutherland – the southern land, called this by the Norse rulers of Orkney, Caithness and Sutherland, from the ninth century.It is indeed all relative.
Moira Fleming
Jedburgh, Scottish Borders
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