When the news is stranger than fiction | Brief letters

I was surprised that your feature (‘What did I just watch?’ The TV shows that utterly baffle us – but we can’t switch off, 20 January) did not include a mention of the popular show News at Ten. When I started watching this years ago, the plotlines more or less made sense, but recently they’ve become increasingly deranged, particularly since the introduction of the weirdly orange-coloured character, “Donald”. However, like many people, I am glued to the show with a mixture of horror and fascination.
Clare Griffel
Bristol

Maybe we should forget the peace prize and award Donald Trump the Nobel prize in physics for his ability to distort reality?
Tom Stewart
Romsey, Hampshire

As President Trump is getting weirder by the minute, could someone just check the spelling of his “Bored of Peace” committee?
Ian Grieve
Steyning, West Sussex

I didn’t think my daily newspaper would ever cost £3.20. But this is not a complaint – not when Richard Smyth’s column (Country diary, 21 January) arrives with such erudition, poetry and joy.
John Clarke
Wakefield, West Yorkshire

What is the most northerly instance in the UK of the perception of “south” (Letters, 20 January)? One prime candidate would be one of Scotland’s most northerly counties, Sutherland – the southern land, called this by the Norse rulers of Orkney, Caithness and Sutherland, from the ninth century.It is indeed all relative.
Moira Fleming
Jedburgh, Scottish Borders