Rebecca Solnit complains about billionaires getting publicity for some of their dafter ideas to tackle climate change (Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble, 20 November). But the only reason they seem able to influence us is because the media bend over backwards to give them publicity and (in some cases) promote what they have to say, usually just because of their wealth. I cannot be certain you will publish this letter, but if I had signed it Bill Gates or Elon Musk, I could guarantee you would.
Stuart Walker
Inverkeilor, Angus
• The Liverpudlian saying to someone who goes on and on – “don’t boil your cabbage twice” (Letters, 21 November) – reminds me of an Irish saying that could equally apply to Nadine Dorries: “Ah, come down off the cross and give someone else a go.”
Peter Stewart
Northfields, London
• Looking at the excellent picture of two people walking along the beach (Readers’ best photographs: A cliffhanger and lions in Crete, 22 November), I can’t stop worrying about whether the tide is coming in or ebbing. Perhaps this is exactly what makes this such a superb picture.
Roger Wilkinson
Leasgill, Cumbria
• Can I suggest that the updated version of The Twelve Days of Christmas (Letters, 19 November) replaces the absurdly aspirational “partridge in a pear tree” with “a recipe from 30p Lee”?
Liz McInnes
Rossendale, Lancashire
• Try this: “On the first day of Christmas the Tories gave to me / 13 years of austerity.” I’ll have a go at the second day tomorrow.
Ian Grieve
Gordon Bennett, Llangollen canal
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