Is phone addiction causing accidents? - The Guardian

Could the emergence successful car accidents involving pedestrians beryllium explained successful portion by the emergence successful mobile telephone usage (‘He was accelerated … helium ran you close over’: what it’s similar to get deed by an SUV, 22 November)? As a cyclist, I often usage shared paths, and I americium amazed by however galore radical locomotion astir glued to their phones, unaware of what is happening astir them.
Mike McMorran
Bournemouth, Dorset

Martin Kettle refers to Scotland’s “often brutal societal media culture” (The ultimate court’s batting distant of Indyref2 leaves Sturgeon much isolated than ever, 23 November). As opposed to England’s prevailingly gentle societal media culture, would that be? Jings, that “headstrong and reckless” Scottish cyberworld sounds awfy scary – convey goodness it stops astatine the border.
Nancy Graham
Belfast

Michael Parrish wants £500,000 per caput for a spot successful his atomic bunker (‘When you perceive the four-minute warning’ … Whatever happened to Britain’s atomic bunkers?, 24 November). Can helium delight archer america wherever helium is going to support this money, and wherefore helium thinks it volition beryllium worthy much than, say, cowrie shells oregon elemental barter erstwhile helium emerges arsenic king of Essex aft 10 to 20 years?
Michael Robinson
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire

Your nonfiction astir the precocious “Sir Alfred”, who spent astir 20 years astatine Charles de Gaulle airdrome (‘The Terminal Man’ lived successful a Paris airdrome for 18 years. I’ll ne'er hide the weeks I spent with him, 23 November), reminded maine that the archetypal Guardian nonfiction astir him (which I inactive have) inspired maine to nonstop him a brace of socks. I wonderment if helium ever received them?
Shirley Hetherington
Great Ayton, North Yorkshire

Surely if you person to explicate their meanings, the contenders for “word of the year” should beryllium ruled retired of the moving (Oxford connection of the twelvemonth to look its archetypal nationalist vote, 21 November).
Derek Schofield
Wistaston, Cheshire