It’s not working so why don’t we change it?

£25 STAR LETTER

I hope somebody with authority read your story about all the money being spent putting drug addicts in jail and the little use it does.

Why do we keep doing the same things and expect different results? Whatever we are doing isn’t working for them or for the rest of us but there are too many people in good jobs that depend on things not changing very much.

That is the case across the board in Scotland and means that, despite all the big talk about reform, nothing ever happens. Too much self-interest and not enough fresh thinking and determination to really make things better.

John Watters, Glasgow

Afghan despair

I can’t bear to think how families who lost loved ones in Afghanistan are feeling. All those lives,british, American and Afghan, lost and for what? For nothing.

W Carr, by email

Thanks, Wullie

I’d like to say a big thank you to the person who wrote Oor Wullie about Wullie nearing the end of the summer holidays.

I think it will help a lot of youngsters as they go back to school. I think we can all learn from it, whatever age we are. The world would be a nicer place if we all have a bit of give and take. Christine Fairweather, Dundee

Secret recipes?

I watched Penny Lancaster on Celebrity Masterchef and on the first night she admitted she never cooked because her and Rod have their own chef but she then goes on to dish up all these fancy recipes. They would have been better getting the Stewarts’ private chef on the show since clearly he had been enlisted to show Penny one end a knife from the other. Catherine Burgess, Stranraer

A sticky problem

Do you know what I really hate? Buying a new book then trying to get the stickers off the cover. Sometimes they come off easily but leave a circle where they have been. Others don’t come off at all and I end up with a sticker that’s half-ripped and annoys me every time I pick the book up.

Why in this day and age can they not stick the stickers on with the same stuff they use on Post-it notes? Apologies for the rant. Cybill Harkness, Oban

New figures please

They need to change the way they report the Covid figures. It’s just a lot of numbers. It doesn’t matter how many people get Covid, the only thing that matters is how many people are ending up in hospital, on ventilators or, sadly, dying. It can’t be good that so many people are getting it but it might not be disastrous. We need figures that might make sense of it for us. Matt Blair, by email

No change here

Changing Rooms was a hoot the first time round and the comeback is just as bad, or good, depending on your taste. The makeovers look even cheaper now but the people look just as distraught when they see what’s been done to their home. Liz Watson, Elgin