Your Letters
Re today's random stat that 15% of festive workers will spend the day playing online - I don't know about anyone else, but that's the target I aim for every day. I must just have higher standards.
Sam, Leeds
Re "The Body Orifice Security Scanner is indeed an electric chair-of-sorts. But rather than being a backdoor attempt..."
So no pun intended there then.
Frances, Bucks
With the disturbing revelation in today's Times that Santa might not be real (Paper Monitor), I hope we don't also learn that any other much loved characters, steeped in their own myth and mysteries, are in fact a combination of imagination and jobbing staffers.
Nicky Stu, Highgate, London
Adam (Thursday letters): one of the things which Scots have and Thais don't, making them unsuitable for hand-shelling langoustines, is the minimum wage. And health and safety legislation. And pensions. And... I'll get my boat.
Craig Thomson, Livingston, Scotland
I was going to cry. How dare you call BNP councillors barking () without pointing out the rest are too. Then I noticed the capital letter. Sorry. I'll get my vote.
Ed, Clacton, UK