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A fitting tribute to Josephine Butler

George Richmond’s 1851 portrait of Josephine Butler.
An 1851 portrait of Josephine Butler by George Richmond. Butler is remembered in a stained-glass window at St Olave’s Hart Street church in the City of London. Photograph: Niday Picture Library/Alamy

Susanna Rustin’s article on Josephine Butler (Josephine Butler: the forgotten feminist who fought the UK police – and their genital inspections, 27 June) was a welcome corrective to the relative obscurity into which this extraordinary woman had sunk. But she is not forgotten everywhere. At St Olave’s Hart Street church in the City of London, Butler is remembered in a stained-glass window, portrayed alongside Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell. We continue to give thanks for her remarkable life campaigning for the rights and dignity of women.
Jim Harris
Lay reader, St Olave’s Hart Street, London

• Rishi Sunak says that Labour will use a landslide victory to “shift politics to the left and stay in power for decades” (Report, 30 June). One can only hope.
Karl Sabbagh
Defford, Worcestershire

• “Nigel Farage to boycott the BBC…” (29 June). At last some good news from Reform UK. Now what will it take for him to boycott all the other media mouthpieces for his odious views?
Don Keller
London

• Re song lyrics that succinctly sum up the government and its election campaign (Letters, 27 June), how about this from Bob Dylan’s Visions of Johanna: “He’s sure got a lot of gall / To be so useless and all”.
Mike Pender
Cardiff

• On election lyrics, might I suggest Mose Allison: “I am not downhearted … But I’m getting there”.
Terry Carbro
Whitby, North Yorkshire

• Do you have a photograph you’d like to share with Guardian readers? If so, please click here to upload it. A selection will be published in our Readers’ best photographs galleries and in the print edition on Saturdays.

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