Your report on Xi Jinping’s drive to improve China’s public toilets (Xi Jinping makes China’s toilets a number two priority, 28 November) made me wonder if he isn’t calling for an end to the “One country, two cisterns” strategy. And while China’s public toilets may not be as clean and hygienic as they could be, they are at least in plentiful supply. On a recent wander around London, I was appalled at the dearth of public facilities. If Xi’s toilet drive is coupled with broader urban hygiene improvement measures, then the results should be impressive.
Andrew Benton
Beijing, China
• Keith Flett (Letters, 25 November) challenges your paper “to rebirth itself” in the era of new formats. I know he supports my oft-repeated suggestion that the letters page as a two-page wall would allow expert contributors, particularly with expertise, space to properly develop and illustrate their points. It is an important space and place for the country to debate opinions within an edited framework.
Peter Hack
Presteigne, Powys
• I learn from Blue Planet II (BBC One, 26 November) that the female giant cuttlefish develops a white line along one side to indicate that she is not available for mating. If only women could develop this ability, so much misunderstanding could be avoided.
Pam Barrett
London
• Never mind driverless cars (Letters, 27 November). After a summer of scrapes, prangs and full-on crashes with floating gin-palaces of all shapes and sizes, the need for a driverless boat is long overdue.
Ian Grieve
Gordon Bennett, Shropshire Union canal
• Presumably, if the productivity watchdog is any good, it won’t need many members (Employers call for productivity watchdog, 28 November).
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton
• My wife and I went to see Paddington 2 (Letters, 28 November) and no one in the audience was below the age of 35.
Gordon Waddington
Doncaster
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