Is it just me who resents the pointless exercise of changing the clocks twice a year? And it’s not just clocks – it’s the central heating, the cooker, the microwave, the outside lighting, the CCTV, the home telephones and various other timers that are usually forgotten about. Then before you know it, the whole process has to be reversed. To what end exactly?
Dr John Davies
Kirkby-in-Cleveland, North Yorkshire
• The BBC certainly chooses its timing well (‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’: Stephen Sackur on the end of HARDtalk – and leaving the BBC, 24 March). Precisely when there is increasing public dissatisfaction with politics and politicians, it ends HARDtalk – one of the few programmes that ensured key movers and shakers could not dodge questions or get away with simplistic answers.
Michael Meadowcroft
Leeds
• America has Doge, maybe Keir Starmer should set up Dobe – Department of Benefits Extraction, run by a British billionaire. Sir Jim Ratcliffe springs to mind, with his recent experience of implementing unpopular cost-saving measures.
James Logan
Edgware, London
• It’s good to hear Hirundinidae passerines are returning to these shores (Letters, 24 March), but for most of us, the first swallow of summer is still the involuntary gulp that occurs when we get our annual council tax and energy statements.
Mike Hine
Kingston upon Thames, London
• There is nothing better than spotting the first Half Man Half Biscuit letter of spring. I feel doubly blessed, even before March is out (Letters, 23 and 26 March).
Alan Reynolds
Smethwick, West Midlands
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