New Year resolutions that will make a difference

WE ALL have the power to make New Year resolutions that will help protect our precious wildlife. Plant a native tree, or, if you don’t have the space, sponsor one through the Woodland Trust. Stop using pesticides and herbicides — when you kill slugs and snails, you remove food for hedgehogs and thrushes. Put up a nest box, bat box or bug hotel to give nature a home.

ROB CURTIS, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.

IN 2018, we should tell the gender fluid, noplatforming, name-erasing, statue-removing, word-banning and panto-altering to leave in

peace the 99 per cent of the population who aren’t interested in these topics. A tiny minority shouldn’t be able to set the agenda for what the rest of us can think and say.

PETER NUGENT, Bootle, Merseyside.

I TRUST politicians and the BBC have resolved to refrain from using these phrases in 2018: ‘Lessons have been learned’, ‘it is not a figure we recognise’, ‘the best emission reduction targets in the world’, ‘we are committed’, ‘we will set up a committee’ and ‘catastrophic global warming’.

CLARK CROSS, Linlithgow, West Lothian.

MY resolutIoN is to leave behind all the plastic packaging in the supermarket when I do my shopping. If everyone did this, it would show the source of this pernicious trash.

JOHN NORRIS, Bracknell, Berks.

SO MUCH needs addressing in 2018: help the homeless by bringing back into use empty and derelict houses; reach out to lonely elderly, infirm and disabled people; raise the state pension to equal the living wage; and reduce the wage gap between the haves and have-nots.

JOHN WILMOTT, Hucknall, Notts.