QUICK VIEWS

TOP START TO DECADE

I’M very pleased to have my first wish for 2021 granted. The wish was that the Mercury front page headlines on January 1, 2021, would announce the start of the new decade. And I was even more pleased to read David Killick’s “Decade of headlines” ( Mercury, January 2). Thank you, Mercury.

Anne Salt New Norfolk

TRUMP TERM TWISTER

DONALD Trump’s insistence that he won last year’s election is unlikely to trouble Joe Biden’s installation as US president. However, since you can only serve twice as president, it raises the question of how Trump will run for a third term in 2024 whilst claiming that the coming four years were, properly speaking, his second term. Patrick Ball

Fern Tree

RED LIGHT DEVIL KILL

FURTHER to “Kerb speed demons to halt devil deaths” ( Mercury, January 4), why doesn’t the government put traffic lights down the Southern Outlet. That way it will stop the roadkill.

Rod Ransley

Glenorchy

SALARIES ALL WRONG

WHEN are we going to pay nurses more and blokes who kick or hit a ball less? Our priorities aren’t just wrong, they’re unethical.

Michael McCall Primrose Sands

POLICE HELD UP

NO wonder we lost more lives on the road in 2020, with the police too busy being hotel police and the boss being state controller, not what he was appointed to do, which is supervise police.

Tony Geeves

Rosetta

BACKYARD PRACTICE

AT the risk of sex stereotyping, could the success of the Australian women’s cricket team compared to the men’s be because more girls play backyard cricket than boys? Hank Dikkenberg

Glenorchy