WHILE big decisions are being made about Brexit and there is another famine with people starving to death in Africa, A R Appleby (Letters, March ) is annoyed because he/she cannot get up the escalator fast enough as people are in the way.

People are struggling on a day to day basis these days, how can you get worked up about a problem like that?

PS. How about using the stairs instead?

Sandra Wilson, Ox Close, Stamford Bridge