Your Letters
Would prisoners use their right to vote? Being excluded from the democratic process is part of the punishment of a prison sentence. If you've proven yourself unable to live by the standards that society sets for you, then you lose the right to set those standards.
Andy Cunningham
Regarding prisoners and voting. The right creates duty and responsibility. If the prisoners are given such a right it may help them to be reformed. Putting them into jail doesn't mean only to punish, but also to provide opportunities to reform themselves. So it would better to grant voting rights to prisoners.
Kamal Raj Paudel
I do admire Wetherspoons' entrepreneurial thrust, but I fear that trying to sell drinks in their toilets is going too far.
John Marsh, Washington, DC, USA
Re: Where can you go to the toilet? Having just enrolled my toddler into preschool in a local church I have discovered that a) the doors to the church are open all day and b) they have unlocked toilets. I had never previously thought of it, but if caught short I would now look out for a church!
Anita Edmunds
Very interesting article about looking at your hand to decrease pain - but it didn't explain why my hand hurt whilst I was reading it.
Kirk, Guernsey, CI
"Thursday has become the most popular night of the week for socialising, the night we are most likely to order a takeaway and buy our weekly food shop..." That's some evening.
Sarah, Basel (formerly Nantwich)
Barry (Wednesday's letters), try . Rather telling!
Joseph, London
If a clock strikes at MM Towers, that is awfully reminiscent of the opening to "1984". Is MM a worker for the Big Brother Corporation (91Èȱ¬)?
Lewis Graham, Hitchin