Adrian Chiles says he needs drastic action to address his paperwork backlog (The best filing system? The one where every piece of paper goes in the bin, 6 May). He should get a shredder. Nothing is more satisfying than sitting in front of the machine with a coffee and a biscuit, and watching it whirring as the paper disappears. The remnants make great bedding for rodents.
Chris Walters
Buxton, Derbyshire
• Andrew Snelson wonders where investment would come from if utilities were nationalised (Letters, 12 May). The same place as privatised profits come from: us, the customers. Except that we’d actually get the investment, rather than seeing the money paid as dividends instead.
Colin Shaw
Kingston upon Thames, London
• Isn’t it time that EU citizens with settled status, who have often, as in my case, lived in the UK for decades, were finally given the vote in national as well as local elections? I am always met with surprise when I explain that I can’t vote.
Marianne Gemmeke
Eastleigh, Hampshire
• I am all for us in our 80s taking the upstairs front seats on buses (Letters, 7 May), provided we surrender them unprompted on the appearance upstairs of their rightful possessors, the under-12s.
Steve Loveman
Sheffield
• After reading the obituary (5 May) of Shirley Porter, “the most corrupt British public figure in living memory”, I am inclined to think she was merely ahead of her time.
Allan Jones
Yardley Gobion, Northamptonshire
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