"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 Nuala Young (Letters, 22 October) says that her children are homeless and living on narrowboats. I would think that most people who live on the streets, and who therefore actually are homeless, would consider her children to be very lucky indeed. John Kemp Cheltenham, Gloucestershire"
Many people find an extra hour of darkness in the afternoons more harmful than an extra morning hour of light. Darker mornings can be tolerated when later daylight is expected, but prolonged dark afternoons worsen seasonal affective disorder. Some readers stress that concerns about the Aston Villa–Maccabi Tel Aviv match focused on avoiding conflict and violence rather than antisemitism, and that Jewish supporters would attend. Living on narrowboats is presented as preferable to sleeping on the streets. A mondegreen anecdote recounts a humorous mishearing involving a harp maker. Readers are invited to submit letters for publication.
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