Getting to know your worst enemy | Brief letters

Retail and PPI | Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison | Bag for life | Wardrobe waiting listIs it possible that British retail’s “worst year on record” (Report, 9 January), with particularly disappointing figures for November and December, might have something to do with the fact that the banks, having showered the economy with £50bn of what has effectively been “helicopter money” over the last decade, finally stopped paying out on PPI claims from the end of Augu