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| One of the reasons why relatively few people change energy supplier (Millions stuck on ‘rip-off’ energy tariffs, data reveals, 15 December) is that price comparison is made more difficult by the standing daily charge that the energy companies include in their bills. The government could help us all by making this illegal. Then there would be a single figure to compare: the charge for a unit of electricity or its equivalent for gas.Paul CliffordKirtlington, Oxfordshire | One of the reasons why relatively few people change energy supplier (Millions stuck on ‘rip-off’ energy tariffs, data reveals, 15 December) is that price comparison is made more difficult by the standing daily charge that the energy companies include in their bills. The government could help us all by making this illegal. Then there would be a single figure to compare: the charge for a unit of electricity or its equivalent for gas.Paul CliffordKirtlington, Oxfordshire |
| • Your interviewer describes Glenda Jackson’s face as “crumpled like an old £5 note” (‘I’ve never got the fear thing’, G2, 15 December). Would he have used the same derogatory description had his 80-year-old subject been male? Mary-Ellen BrownCardiff | • Your interviewer describes Glenda Jackson’s face as “crumpled like an old £5 note” (‘I’ve never got the fear thing’, G2, 15 December). Would he have used the same derogatory description had his 80-year-old subject been male? Mary-Ellen BrownCardiff |
| • If the news item quoted by Les Summers (Letters, 15 December) did say that more than half of all the jobs created by UK employers this year went to EU workers, this is hardly surprising. At the moment, every UK citizen who works here is an EU worker.Mike Jones London | • If the news item quoted by Les Summers (Letters, 15 December) did say that more than half of all the jobs created by UK employers this year went to EU workers, this is hardly surprising. At the moment, every UK citizen who works here is an EU worker.Mike Jones London |
| • Rod Edmond (Letters, 14 December) mentions a radio adaptation by Dylan Thomas of The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson and wonders if it was ever broadcast. In fact, an adaptation of Thomas’s screenplay of the story was first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2014. Twice.Alison HindellHead of audio drama, BBC | • Rod Edmond (Letters, 14 December) mentions a radio adaptation by Dylan Thomas of The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson and wonders if it was ever broadcast. In fact, an adaptation of Thomas’s screenplay of the story was first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2014. Twice.Alison HindellHead of audio drama, BBC |
| • Re your editorial (15 December) on Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees: not so much “draining the swamp” as filling it with alligators.Ron LancasterHemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire | • Re your editorial (15 December) on Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees: not so much “draining the swamp” as filling it with alligators.Ron LancasterHemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire |
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