HIGH OPINIONS

How wonderfully fresh the opinions from Barbara Dickson’s “If I Ruled The World” were. Especially the one about reducing the use of mobile phones in bars and restaurants. Let’s get back to normal by actually talking to one another. It’s a return of common sense to everyday living, through the reduction of competitive television shows, together with the setting of false horizons for people, rather than allowing people to be themselves, that truly is needed.

—DAVID HARVEY, Wiltshire

I agree with Barbara Dickson. I once signed a petition to ban the use of PVC window frames and doors. As well as the fairly welldocumented dangers to public and private health involved in the production, use and disposal of PVC products generally, PVC window frames and doors have the added disadvantage of being very ugly, especially the doors. They are a blight on the British landscape. Not forgetting that the world should be cutting down on making anything with plastic.

—PJ MADDOCKS, via email