Anyone caught in the chaos of the mad, traffic-infested streets in London as they tried to get home during the strike by RMT tube drivers might realise how important those drivers are in keeping London running smoothly (Report, 8 September). Perhaps it’s worth paying them more and reducing their working hours.
Dr Alan Lafferty
London
• Regarding the letter on smiling (Letters, 10 September), I am told by my son that no one gives way to another vehicle in the south. While this is possibly a wild generalisation, I find that letting a vehicle into a queue of traffic in front of you changes a stressed face to a smile of thanks.
Jeanette Hamilton
Buxton, Derbyshire
• One of the reasons Samantha Cameron gives for winding up her clothing business is international trading restrictions (10 September). I do hope that she has someone to turn to for an explanation as to how this happened.
Mat Tarrant
Beeston, Nottinghamshire
• Re the Banksy artwork at the Royal Courts of Justice in London (Court staff cover up Banksy image of judge beating a protester, 8 September), am I the only pedant to notice a British judge wielding an American gavel in court?
David Whiteway
Tiverton, Devon
• Recovery from the nauseating effects of nitrous oxide (Letters, 10 September) in our school clinic in Sheffield in the early 1950s was in the hands of the dental nurse: a couple of clips round the ears while in the corridor.
John Bailey
St Albans
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