Whatever happened to common sense?

The Turner Prize is awarded for an empty room and switching lights. Pensions minister Alistair Darling decides to do away with protective screens for his workers, unsurprisingly causing a strike.

Brighton and Hove City Council feels unable to provide a grant to keep the essential Citizens' Advice Bureau open in Hove, but is happy to subsidise art.

And the Post Office workers are told of huge sackings a week before they are expected to strain every effort to deal with the mammoth Christmas mail.

-J Denman, Bramber Avenue, Hove