Your Letters
17:05 UK time, Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Okay. Can someone please put me out of my misery and tell me what exactly is in that bun? It looks to me like a tiny, battered alien. Whatever it is, it's not very photogenic.
Sue, London
That wasn't a normal Tube ride. I mean, just watch the video and look at that lady sitting opposite (and chatting to) the Royal couple. You wouldn't go on the Tube on a January morning wearing only that, would you?
Johan van Slooten, Urk, The Netherlands
Unfortunately Chris (yesterday's letters) is correct - over-familiarity has long spread wider than websites. Round here our buses tell you "Sorry, I'm not in service".
Basil Long, Nottingham
This article skirts round the other reason politicians now love anecdotes - they're an excellent replacement for facts. If your new policy is failed or unpopular, simply leave out all the statistics and give one example of one person who liked it. Bingo - instant impression of success.
Edward Green, London, UK
For us older readers please can you make your link unambiguous. I clicked on the link to this story out of concern for the Deacon Blue front man.
MCK, Stevenage
If Daniel Tammet has set the European record for reciting all the digits of pi it was presumably not necessarily quite the right number of times each and perhaps (pace Eric Morecambe) not necessarily in the right order. There are only ten of them, after all.
Geraint Jones, Oxford
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