A bag for life that’s keeping its promise | Brief letters
Reading Gary Younge (Nationalism needn't be negative - but it has to be honest, Journal, 3 January), I couldn't help but view it all through the lens of the comment by Stephen Maturin, in Patrick O'Brian's novel Master and Commander, that patriotism is a word "that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile".
Tony Rimmer
Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire
" Hannah Fry (Journal, 6 January) suggests a problem about deciding on the location of decontamination units boils down to maths, needing top minds to solve. The "where" in the problem should have suggested geography, which even 10 years ago would have provided a speedy solution, neatly coloured in as well. Otherwise, I agree with her.
Jan Rigby
Professor emerita, department of geography, Maynooth University, Ireland