Obscene as it is that anyone receives £726,000 a day (Letters, 23 November), let alone from gamblers’ weaknesses, there must be some consolation in that about £326,700 a day income tax should be deducted and goes towards supporting lots of important things. The real scandal would be if any tax was avoided.
Martin Cooper
Bromley, Kent
• The recent report by the UN on poverty in Britain made me reflect: during my 20 years growing up in Birmingham in the 1960s and 1970s, I did not once see a beggar, rough sleeper or homeless person but in one walk between Paddington and King’s Cross on Monday, I lost count.
Bob Forster
Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire
• Now that the leaves have finally fallen from the trees near my home, I have a clear view of a plastic bag that has been lodged high up in the branches for at least four years. It has become an annual event to watch for its reappearance, especially as I have just had my 94th birthday. Which of us will fall off the perch first, I wonder?
Hilda Hayden
Malvern, Worcestershire
• Your correspondents rightly complain about the low proportion of female members of parliament (Letters, 21 November). The solution seems to me to be obvious. Halve the number of constituencies and have two members per constituency – one male and one female. Simple.
Paul Houghton
Towcester, Northamptonshire
• Surely the suggestion that 60% of the UK population believes in conspiracy theories (Report, 23 November) is designed to make the rest of us feel even more anxious and suspicious than we already do?
Fr Alec Mitchell
Manchester
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