Apart from the health issues, the idea that a company drives over 700,000 miles in order to give out rubbish in single-use aluminium cans sums up all that is wrong with capitalism and its cavalier destruction of our world (Coca-Cola’s Christmas truck tour hits bumps in the road, 14 November).
Rachel Meredith
Long Marston, North Yorkshire
• While travelling by train from Liverpool to Stafford last year, an announcement politely reminded passengers that, “if anything on the seat next to you can’t move, doesn’t breathe and hasn’t bought a ticket, then it shouldn’t have a seat” (How to avoid a railway seat ‘altercation’, G2, 13 November).
Estelle Smart
Malvern, Worcestershire
• Well, you could knock me down with a feather, but how in the world does Philip Norman have the brass neck to accuse anyone of “trotting out [a] tired old phrase … as if it were newly minted” (‘Yoko Ono was waiting for me – with two lawyers’, G2, 12 November)?
Paul Fisher
Bath
• Does the government’s typical British bodge-job Brexit deal (Report, 14 November) mean future frictionless EU trade will require liberal applications of something called vassaline?
Norman Miller
Brighton
• I suppose that whoever buys the Ambrosia brand from Premier Foods (Finance pages, 14 November) will get custody.
Alison Boon
London
• Brilliant idea to highlight the first time someone’s name is mentioned (Letters, 14 November). Yes please.
Heather Parry
Watford, Hertfordshire
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