I agree with the proposition put forward by Melanie Reynolds that in suitable circumstances parents should feel free to take their babies to work (Why should work be a baby-free zone?, 1 December). Mine accompanied me from the age of five weeks, with no apparent ill-effects on either of us or on my co-workers. As a nation we still appear, in general, to adopt a fairly Victorian attitude towards babies and children. Isn’t it time this changed?
Patricia Pipe
Saltash, Cornwall
• While Saturday’s Guardian continued to give prominence to a black cloud assessment of Brexit prospects, the ray of sunshine that is “UK factory orders hit four-year high” (Financial) was squirrelled away on page 30! Just saying…
Graham White
Colchester, Essex
• In 2003 you published a letter from me about the collective noun for starlings. Since then you have regularly published beautiful pictures of murmurations, the latest on the letters page, on 29 November. Probably enough over the years to make a calendar, which would certainly be more attractive than pictures of the prime minister going to church (Letters, 23 November).
Nick Starling
London
• I am teaching A Christmas Carol (Review, 30 November) to my year 7 class. To encourage an understanding of Dickens’ outrage at conditions for many, they wrote a letter to the contemporary mayor of London, arguing for better treatment of the poor, and urging for a more equal society, in which everyone has similar opportunities. How ironic, then, to see a London production offering tickets starting at £90 a seat on Christmas Eve. Beware Dickens’ spirits paying a visit!
Sue Lewis
Alpington, Norfolk
• At first blush I thought the photo of the masked cricketers in Delhi (Air pollution stops play in Delhi Test Match, 4 December) was the next stage in an anti-sledging campaign by the ICC for the Ashes series in Australia.
Tim Davies
Batheaston, Somerset
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