New modern god to worship

IN response to a letter asking where have all our children gone during school holidays and nice weather. The answer is simple.

They are worshipping their new god and still trying to understand how everyone knows everyone else’s business. It is the new drug which is almost as hard to get off as smoking and drinking, and puts things like companionship or exercise in the shade.

It begins with a big letter M, and I don’t mean McDonald’s.

Baking on 
the buses

From: Tim Mickleburgh, Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

AS a regular bus traveller, I wonder if buses are designed as well as they used to be?

I mean, it is great that most are low level, thus helping those in wheelchairs and others who aren’t as mobile as they used to be. What’s more, seats are geared to the individual, and are now longer of the bench variety.

Yet what has happened to the windows? I was a passenger the other day, and only five of the windows were able to open. Consequently, it felt like an oven given the sun’s heat.

Too generous public payoffs

From: Nigel F Boddy, Fife Road, Darlington.

IN the latest round of public sector redundancies, big sums were offered to people to persuade them to give up their jobs. These sums have been in many cases far too generous and paid to people in their 50s.

The day is fast approaching when the country cannot afford to pay these pensions at all, never mind to people in their 50s. Parliament is supreme and can overturn these agreements by simply passing an Act. Can we please get on with it so we can protect the income of the oldest lowest-paid public sector pensioners?

We need a discussion now about how many of these pensions we are going to pay in future.