Virtual reality is no match for the real thing

Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA

Living in the real world | Rot at the top | Playing away | BBC brouhaha

The philosopher David Chalmers asks us to embrace virtual worlds as a new reality (Report, 17 January), as “this is where humanity is heading”. Not for this human it isn’t. Thanks, but no thanks. I’ll stick to reality.
Pete Lavender
Nottingham

• While preparing for my interview for a headship, I came across the old adage that schools, like fish, rot from the head down. For some reason, that reminds me of the government.
Bob Forster
Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire

• In his autobiography, Farewell to Cricket, Don Bradman recounts how he received a letter from Amsterdam that had no name or address, only a photo of the upper half of his face and the words “Somewhere playing in England” (Letters, 16 January).
Claude Scott
Richmond, London

• I have never understood why BBC Radio does not solicit funding from its worldwide audience to supplement, not replace, its licence fee funding? If Radio 4 got a tenner from even 50% of its worldwide listenership, that would surely add millions to its budget? I, for one, would be happy to bung it a few bob every year.
John White
Dublin

• The BBC only has to suggest that it will have to pull the plug on the Archers and the government will back off.
Dave Crook
Selly Oak, Birmingham

• Six letters hold this country together: BBC and NHS.
Jim Secord
Cambridge

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