A way to combat noisy phone users | Brief letters

Democracies | Swallowing objects | Phone monsters | Pollution | Steve BellAung San Suu Kyi’s fall from grace tells us something about ourselves. We fetishise democracy. This is folly. All too often, democracies have resorted to rendition, torture, cyberwarfare, assassination, terrorism and war. We’ve got to start practising what we preach.
Yugo Kovach
Winterborne Houghton, Dorset• Your letters about swallowing Lego (29 November) reminded me of a true story of nearly 80 years ago