God bless America! You report (12 November) that Tyndall air force base in Florida is enforcing limits on exterior Christmas lights and decorations, permitting them only from 30 days before until the third week in January, and only from 6pm to 11pm. Similar restrictions in the UK would be welcomed by many, and could also be justified in the drive towards net zero.
David Thompson
Sudbury, Suffolk
• I was teaching a group of bank managers about business and asked them to come up with realistic business ideas. One manager from Yorkshire proposed a winery. Another said: “You haven’t thought about storage – you need a cool dark place.” To which the first responded: “Huddersfield is a cool dark place” (Letters, 14 November).
John Banks
Ledbury, Herefordshire
• The government is abolishing police and crime commissioners in England and Wales (Report, 13 November) on the grounds that less than 20% of voters can name theirs. I doubt if that percentage of voters could name their MP either.
Ralph Jones
Rochester, Kent
• I am possibly the least likely person to ask this, but has Charles Foster (Letters, 16 November) forgotten “deliver us from evil”? Or is he proposing taxing that as an inappropriate use of the word too?
Simon CR Lewis
Great Cambourne, Cambridgeshire
• I must admit to be a little disappointed that we haven’t heard from any residents of Trump Street, Maxwell Avenue or Farage Mews (Letters, 13 November).
Ian Grieve
Steyning, West Sussex
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