A prediction: it’s some time in 2016. Your phone rings. Silence, followed by a robotic recorded voice. “Have you or any member of your family ever owned a VW vehicle? If so you could be in line for a large payment. Press 1 to hear, etc, etc.” (Letters, 25 September). Repeat ad nauseam.
Margaret Farnworth
Liverpool
• Could Sadiq Khan please add free water fountains in London to his first-term to-do list (Report, September 25)? I seem to remember Ken Livingstone promising to do the same and delivering precisely nothing.
Ralph Jones
Rochester, Kent
• I suppose that George Osborne’s drive for more children to learn Chinese is important to our national security (Report, 21 September). How else will we know what sandwiches our Chinese nuclear engineers want for dinner?
Dr Colin Bannon
Crapstone, Devon
