Let’s keep this simple. I want a first-class NHS, thriving schools, food on the table for children and a dignified life for older people. To achieve this, I am prepared to pay more tax. Tough choices? Surely easy choices (Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out tax rises as autumn budget looms, 4 November).
Toby Wood
Peterborough
• What Rachel Reeves needs to explain is not why she is going to put up taxes, but why she promised voters last year that she wouldn’t.
Matthew Taylor
Hove, East Sussex
• Pass notes on Americanisms (3 November) is illustrated in print with a child holding the stars and stripes in one hand and the union flag in the other – upside down. Is this meant as a distress signal on behalf of the English language?
Katy Jennison
Witney, Oxfordshire
• How ironic if Trump’s reputation turns out to have been besmirched by misinformation (BBC accused of selectively editing Trump clip from day of Capitol attack, 3 November).
Roger Wilkinson
Leasgill, Cumbria
• Clearly the setter of the Wordwheel has a sense of humour. On Monday, the solution was “Boyfriend”. On Tuesday, it was “Bedfellow”. What next? “Matrimony”?
Rob and Liz Gifford
Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes
• Re what “narrow daylight” looks like, it’s what you see at the crack of dawn (Letters, 3 November).
Richard Barnard
Wivenhoe, Essex
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