Further to your video (Owen Jones meets Keir Starmer: ‘Brexit fatigue is real – but we can’t let this deal pass’, 30 November), could I suggest “Brexhaustion” as a useful term that captures our fatigue with respect to the Brexit debates? I for one am surely feeling Brexhausted.
Dr Aldo Zammit Borda
Senior lecturer in international law, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
• The 1973/74 “winter of discontent” brought the three-day week and power cuts. At the time, I worked for a council in Essex where the women were allowed to wear trousers (Letters, 1 December), the only heating being unreliable (and smelly) paraffin heaters. I continued to do so after the disputes were over and was told, in no uncertain terms, to go back to wearing a skirt.
Jenny Haynes
Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire
• Just be thankful that Margaret Thatcher’s face is only being considered for the £50 note (Letters, 1 December). If it had been the fiver, we would have found it difficult to avoid, but most of us hoi polloi will probably never see a £50 note.
Chris Jones
Bewdley, Worcester
• If she is on any bank note, I am not putting her in my purse!
Thalia Gordon Clark
Bromyard, Herefordshire
• If John Crace (1 December) was offered a seat on the tube it means he is looking old. When he is happy to accept, that means he is old.
John Trayner
London
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