The misery of our clocks going back | Brief letters
Darkened mood | Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match | Homeless people | Misheard at a party
Your article (Looking forward to an extra hour in bed on Sunday? Time to thank a farsighted builder from Kent, 25 October) misses the main point for many people. The extra hour of darkness in the afternoons outweighs the extra morning hour of light. Psychologically, you can deal with darker mornings when you know it’s going to get light later, whereas those of us with seasonal affective disorder feel miserable at the prospect of endless hours of darkness from mid-afternoon onwards.
Paul Highfield
Sheffield
• All praise to Jonathan Liew for the first sensible words about the Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match (Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now?, 21 October). It was never about antisemitism. Jewish Villa supporters will have no problem attending. It was about avoiding conflict and violence in a complex and politicised situation.
Andy Coe
Norwich