Adding more beans to your diet is very old news to many lifelong vegetarians and devotees of Rose Elliot’s bean books. She was their advocate long before Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall got in a TV kitchen (Beans, beans, the more you eat, the more your … meals are healthier and cheaper, 17 December).
Ingrid Marsh
Ipplepen, Devon
• OK then, if the Kennedy Center is renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center (Kennedy Center board votes to add Trump’s name to DC arts institution, 18 December), I vote we rename the Epstein files the Trump-Epstein files. It’s only fair.
Pete Hendy
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
• As it is the season of goodwill, could you desist from printing any more Opinion pieces about Reform? I fear my wife will explode before Christmas.
Barry Fyfield
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
• It feels like there is something of a stigma attached to “being alone at Christmas”. Has anyone thought of researching the thousands (millions?) who actually envy us?
Carol Green
Oxford
• Re your letters about life stages (21 December), what stage is it, I wonder, when you start to apologise to inanimate objects when you bump into them, and thank the central heating or shower when they work? Dotage, perhaps.
Janet Howe
London
• What odd habits have you developed as a result of using technology? Mine is looking at the top of a newspaper for the time.
Geraldine Blake
Worthing, West Sussex
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