As I read your article about waiting lists of up to 467 days for cataract removal on the NHS (21 September), a circular arrived through my door offering cataract operations within two weeks from private healthcare provider Nuffield Health. Could the two be related, I wonder?
John French
Chepstow, Monmouthshire
• Simon Platman (Letters, 21 September) repeats the often expressed view that Jeremy Corbyn’s opposition to Trident is “a sure-fire vote loser”. If this is so, why has this same policy not lost votes for the SNP, which is just as firmly opposed to Trident?
John Boaler
Calne, Wiltshire
• Since when, may I ask Simon Platman, did being willing to exterminate hundreds of thousands of people and contaminate swaths of the planet define a politician as “serious”? I am one of those who supports Jeremy Corbyn because he is not willing. I believe he is serious, and I know I am.
Alison Leonard
Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
• May I suggest three fingers held aloft as a polite universal hand gesture to stop drivers using their mobile phone while driving (Letters, 19 September)? When the new proposals become law three fingers could be closed and raised again to denote six penalty points.
Rosanna Achilleos-Sarll
London
• Like your other correspondents, I often see people using their mobile phones while driving. Even more often, I am overtaken by drivers exceeding the 20mph speed limit. As they pass, I politely sign “2” and “0” with my fingers. Unfortunately, I fear they only have time to see the “2”.
David Ridge
London
• I was very glad to see the word “flava” as a solution in Tuesday’s cryptic crossword (No 26,994), even though I am really too old to know what it means.
Liz Fuller (aged 59½)
London
