Follow the issues of the year through the weightier contributions of Guardian letter writers or dip in to sample the quick points and observations from the briefs column. It is a perfect companion to the Bedside Guardian. Letters to the editor are an opportunity for readers to thunder back at the media, correct their misunderstandings, ridicule their pretensions and alert them to all manner of unremarked phenomena. This second collection of Letters to the Guardian records the newspaper's correspondents' responses to the events and debates of the year, month by month, from October 2007 to October 2008.