Why should we believe in the government’s climate change strategy (Report, 19 October) when both the prime minister and deputy prime minister have added tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by flying for personal holidays in the last three months? Perhaps the climate emergency doesn’t apply to government ministers?
Donald Reid
Watford, Hertfordshire
• Forget the panic about pigs in blankets; I wonder how many of your readers are aware of the difficulties this year of getting hold of rullepølse? I don’t want to irresponsibly cause a panic about this but we are having to find a new source this year and, even then, they cannot guarantee delivery in time for Christmas Eve.
Sarah James
Monmouth
• Perhaps it would be more appropriate for Newcastle United (Sport, 17 October), whose motto is fortiter defendit triumphans (triumphing by brave defence), to adopt and adapt Spurs’ audere est facere – which happens to be an anagram of “Erect Saud era? Fee?” .
Fr Alec Mitchell
Holyhead, Anglesey
• Now that the quick crossword has become extremely quick, is it time to introduce a third crossword, not as quick as the quick but quicker than the cryptic?
David Humphreys
Arnside, Cumbria
• With reference to David Conn’s long read (Hillsborough: the great betrayal, Journal, 21 October), how heavily the shadow of Hillsborough hangs over Grenfell.
Laurence Eldredge
Oxford
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