Three cheers for John Humphrys (Thought for the Day is ‘boring’, 31 October). The continued exclusion of secular humanists from the programme is inexcusable, now that half the UK population do not have a religious faith. The BBC should either allow people of no faith to speak, or retitle it truthfully “Religious Thought for the Day”.
Mary McKeown
Bedford
• John Humphrys complains that Thought for the Day is “nearly three minutes of uninterrupted religion”. Is it the uninterrupted or the religion that he is most worried about?
Jeanne Warren
Oxford
• Formula 1 world champion he may be for a record fourth time (Arise Sir Lewis?, Sport, 31 October), but where does Lewis Hamilton pay his taxes? Maybe there should be no elevation without taxation.
Graham Downie
Studley, Warwickshire
• On the day that the England under-17 side won their football World Cup (Young Lions roar to victory, 30 October), Chelsea, last season’s top club, fielded a side versus Bournemouth without one English player. Chelsea have an Italian manager and a Russian owner. This is the reality of profesional football in this country.
David Watson
Nutley, East Sussex
• Will Hawkes’ report on craft beer at football grounds (G2, 30 October) failed to mention those on offer at West Ham United: Boleyn Bitter and Iron Ale are on sale at nine bars on the Podium Level at the London Stadium.
Roger Protz
St Albans, Hertfordshire
• And, as the French say of margarine (Letters, 28 October), “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas le beurre.”
Jane Caplan
Oxford
• Siobhain Butterworth writes of her time as Guardian readers’ editor (Open door, 30 October) that the “archetypal Guardian reader seemed to be disappearing”. On the contrary, I’m still here as usual.
Keith Flett
London
