Your report (‘This platform gave me everything’: street performers rue end of busking at Leicester Square, 17 April) on the end of busking in Leicester Square, London, gave no real indication of the impact of the amplified music on those working nearby. Our 2023 report on busking noted music levels there above 100 decibels, louder than an aircraft landing. The court rightly ruled that this was unacceptable. For those disturbed by the noise, in the words of the song, “things can only get better”.
John Stewart
Chair, UK Noise Association
• Might not the problem of noisy street performers be solved by banning amplification, especially singing or playing along to backing tracks, which is really just karaoke?
Ian Watson
Glasgow
• Keith Langton says he needs a signal to others that he is not just a dotty old bloke talking to himself when using his hearing aid to take a phone call (Letters, 13 April). This works both ways. If you like talking to yourself when out and about, stick in your earbuds and everyone will assume you’re on the phone.
Ron Jacob
London
• As Liz Truss is so proud of her Yorkshire roots, may I suggest that T’Witter might be an option for the name of her planned social media platform (Letters, 16 April).
Ian Grieve
Gordon Bennett, Llangollen canal
• I am thinking of getting a red baseball cap inscribed “MABA”, and a matching T-shirt inscribed “Make America Behave Again”.
Robin M White
Broughty Ferry, Dundee
• A plea to people in the US: please Make America Boring Again.
Debbie Colson
London
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