The winter solstice on 21 December is indeed the shortest day in terms of daylight hours but, because of the eccentricity of the Earth’s orbit, the earliest sunset is some 10 days earlier (Letters, 7 March). If the UK leaves the EU with a deal and is subject to a transition period, the government will be obliged to follow all EU laws including the current proposal to scrap the twice-yearly clock change. We can, however, choose which one of three time zones we are in.
Robert Hewitt
London
• School uniform for lower school in the 1960s at the Catholic College in Preston included a Harris Tweed jacket (sleeves cut to the thumb joint to accommodate adolescent expansion). Anyone walking into a room full of gently steaming boys after a wet break was left in no doubt that the tweed had been thoroughly waulked (Letters, 12 March).
Austen Lynch
Garstang, Lancashire
• Interesting reconfiguration of G2, but why are staples still necessary?
Martin Pearmain
Huddersfield
• Do we really need four pages on wellbeing every Monday? I feel quite sick already. How about four pages on the environment and what we could do as citizens to improve matters? What would Greta Thunberg think of being confined to two pages in the middle of G2?
Muriel Schoendoerffer
Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes
• So Tuesday’s G2 is “Life & Arts”, huh? You ought to rename the Journal bit “Deaths & Politics”.
Robin Milner-Gulland
Washington, West Sussex
• “Roit my luvver” is ow we doos it still in Brissul (Letters, 12 March).
Mick Beeby
Bristol
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