Zero stars for the online rating game | Brief letters

Online ratings | School holiday scam | Back-row kisses | Barking | Champagne populism To Stuart Heritage’s excellent list of words to describe our tech dystopia ( 18 August ), can I add “iRate”? This is when you make an online purchase and, even before you’ve had time to remove the packaging, receive an email asking “How was it for you?”, followed by another a few days later if you fail to review every detail of the transaction, and then another, and another, until you’re left wanting to throw your purchase and/or your laptop across the room.

Elli Woollard London • Rather than criminalising parents who take their children on holiday during term time because it’s much cheaper ( ‘Cheap travel is not a defence’: the parents facing court for school absences in England, 15 August ), why not address the blatant profiteering by travel firms charging inflated prices during school holidays? Max Fishel Bromley, London Continue reading...