“I don’t get people wanting to watch live theatre beamed into a cinema,” says Peter Bradshaw (Another Fiennes mess, My Week, 14 November). And so, Peter, we can assume that you, say, live in London or its environs? Those of us who live further afield might not share your (blinkered) bemusement.
Anne McLaren
Liverpool
• If, as George Osborne asserts (Report, 14 November), the fact that Northern Rock mortgages “have been sold for £300m more than their book value demonstrates the confidence investers have in the UK”, it also vindicates Labour’s nationalisation of the bank, which the Tories opposed.
Jeremy Beecham
Labour, House of Lords
• We’re clearly heading for another “winter of discontent”. The last one, in 1978-79, brought down a government of decent people. This time it may bring down a government that richly deserves it.
Ralph Blumenau
London
• No one seems to have picked up on one possibility as to how the pollsters got the general election result wrong (Report, 13 November). Could it be that the Tory tactic of frightening voters with the SNP worked and that enough “Conservative” Ukip defectors switched back at the last minute, whereas “Labour” Ukip defectors didn’t?
Alan Tiplady
Nottingham
• Sixty or so years ago, my mother and I visited a friend of hers for lunch. There was a boy there, and he and I built houses with his Bayko toy (Letters, 13 November). We now have delightful sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren. A Bayko house has pride of place on our sideboard.
Pauline Lesley Young
Bracknell
• I’ve got two words for you (Letters, passim): win-win.
Richard Walker
Malvern, Worcestershire
• Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
