The suggestion that we scrap working on Fridays (Gaby Hinsliff, 20 July) is attractive – I’m trying to do it. But we are lucky to have the choice. Most of the things I want to do instead (get on a train, go to the cinema, sit in the park, go out for lunch, send a letter to the Guardian etc) require someone else to be at work. Usually on a lower wage than mine.
Rob Watling
Nottingham
• In Sport, 19 July, there were full-page stories about Sam Warburton and Geraint Thomas plus a smaller piece about Gareth Bale. What do they have in common, apart from being eminent Welsh sportsmen? They all went to school at Whitchurch High in Cardiff at around the same time. Can any other suburban comprehensive boast a comparable achievement?
Mike Pender
Cardiff
• It is not a government of so-called national unity that is required (Editorial, 19 July); what is urgently needed is a general election – the sooner the better.
David Winnick
London
• The expensive disaster of bus privatisation (Letters, 17 July) refers to the profits going to the bus companies but does not mention the profits also going to taxi companies which have greatly expanded to fill the gap from the withdrawal of bus services. Since my bus service was withdrawn I have spent between £20 and £50 per week on taxis. Now, on Wirral, the pressure on taxi services has become so great that the council has approved an increase in taxi fares to encourage the recruitment of more drivers.
Lionel Burman
West Kirby, Wirral
• The truth about Birkenhead and Liverpool (Letters, 20 July) is easy. It’s just like Paris. The intellectuals congregate on the left bank.
Martin Ince
Ipswich
• Did all Guardian readers own Morris Minors, or was it just the letter writers (Letters passim)?
Paul Montgomery
Winchester
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