News that the Guardian has been barred from the Amex stadium (Brighton ban Guardian from stadium over reporting on Tony Bloom, 7 December) follows a previous exclusion order imposed by the club on the local paper, the Evening Argus, for publishing stories unfavourable to the then directors in the 1980s. The paper got around this by covering matches from a back garden overlooking the old Goldstone ground, with the photographer perched up a stepladder. Sadly, this isn’t an option at the totally enclosed Amex arena.
Jim Hatley
Brighton
• I see that in the Wordsearch about courts (8 December), one answer is “gavel”. I thought it was pretty well established now that judges in the UK do not use gavels, such tools only being employed by auctioneers. Are you trying to assert that justice in Britain is available only to the highest bidder?
John Starbuck
Lepton, West Yorkshire
• “PM urges Europe to curb human rights laws to halt rise of populism”, says your front page headline (Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right, 9 December). You couldn’t make it up. So, the far right want to take away your rights, so instead we are going to take them away. That’ll show them.
George Grime
London
• Oh dear. Sorry, Anne Johns (Letters, 9 December), I don’t think I can even answer your suggested citizenship questions and I’ve been a British citizen all my life.
Jeanette Hamilton
Buxton, Derbyshire
• After the Trump regime’s attack on Calibri, is San Serriffe now at risk of invasion (Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman, 10 December)?
Alasdair McKee
Lancaster
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