Your article (Looking forward to an extra hour in bed on Sunday? Time to thank a farsighted builder from Kent, 25 October) misses the main point for many people. The extra hour of darkness in the afternoons outweighs the extra morning hour of light. Psychologically, you can deal with darker mornings when you know it’s going to get light later, whereas those of us with seasonal affective disorder feel miserable at the prospect of endless hours of darkness from mid-afternoon onwards.
Paul Highfield
Sheffield
All praise to Jonathan Liew for the first sensible words about the Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match (Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now?, 21 October). It was never about antisemitism. Jewish Villa supporters will have no problem attending. It was about avoiding conflict and violence in a complex and politicised situation.
Andy Coe
Norwich
Nuala Young (Letters, 22 October) says that her children are homeless and living on narrowboats. I would think that most people who live on the streets, and who therefore actually are homeless, would consider her children to be very lucky indeed.
John Kemp
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Re mondegreens and eggcorns (Letters, 12 October), at a friend’s party, my late wife, Margaret, asked a handsome young man what he did for a living. His response was: “I’m a heartbreaker.” “I bet you are,” was my wife’s reply to a surprised harp maker.
John Bradley
Kidderminster, Worcestershire
Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
