Rafael Behr (On second thoughts, 3 January) says “Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters correctly understood that his candidacy represented a total rupture from the party’s past”. From Ramsay MacDonald and Tony Blair, certainly. But from what we can tell thus far (admittedly not very much), his ideas on taxation, housing and public ownership still come nowhere near Clem Attlee’s radical 1945 programme.
David Redshaw
Gravesend, Kent
• Six weeks ago the Guardian reported an estimated 3bn paper coffee cups are thrown away annually in the UK (Environment staff use 1,400 takeaway coffee cups every day, 22 November). This week you report this number as 2.5bn (Pret a Manger raises reusable cup discount, 3 January). This is an impressive reduction in such a short space of time, so the campaign to get people to carry reusable cups must be working!
Simon Sweeney
York
• I’m astonished to read in the Guardian that a recommended share for 2018 is BP (After a big year for traditional investments and digital coins, here are our tips for 2018, 2 January). What happened to Keep it in the Ground and fossil fuel divestment?
William Bartram
Twickenham, Middlesex
• I’m looking forward to your move to tabloid size (Letters, 4 January), if only in the hope that there will be less room for photographs of “celebrating” footballers.
Michael Robinson
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
• An interesting result from Portugal’s top division: “Feirense L Porto 2” (Sport, 4 January). Surely the two teams should have stopped playing at the same time?
Nick Hastings
London
• Rude street names may be disappearing (Shortcuts, G2, 4 January) but walkers near Winchester can still take the path up Betty Mundy’s Bottom.
Stephen Bibby
Silchester, Hampshire
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