A four-day week? I’d suggest a 10-day one | Brief letters

Instead of a four-day working week (‘Bring it on!’: growing support in England for four-day week in schools, 9 December), could we consider a 10-day week? Work seven days and have three days off. The economy gets an extra day’s production out of the workforce, and workers enjoy a long weekend every weekend. There would be three weeks in a 30-day month with a few days to spare, much as it is now. What about naming the three extra weekdays? Think of the fun a national competition would bring. Just what we need – a distraction.
Ruth Guthrie
Brigham, Cumbria

You couldn’t make it up. You quote Donald Trump as saying “But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? … The only thing they’re good at is going after ships” (Trump rails on affordability ‘hoax’ and flings racist attacks in rally-style speech, 10 December) on the very day that US troops seized a tanker of Venezuelan oil. Piracy is piracy, no matter who does it.
Wal Callaby
Whatfield, Suffolk

Renewed investment in our once-thriving music services would help this apparent problem of “writing fatigue” (Some GCSEs and A-levels in England could be taken on laptops by 2030, Ofqual says, 11 December). A few scales and arpeggios never hurt anyone.
Gillian Bassett
Great Barford, Bedfordshire

Would I be excluded from the US for not having any social media activity (Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan, 10 December)?
Jane Sutherland
Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire

There are just four stages of life (Letters, 14 December), and they are: lager, Aga, Saga, gaga.
Steve Clarke
Newport, East Yorkshire