The transport secretary said she’d “struggle to sleep” if she had been running Heathrow, after reports that the airport’s chief executive slept during the early hours of its power cut crisis last week (Report, 24 March). I – and, I suspect, most travellers – would prefer the person in charge of an airport to have had a good night’s sleep before going to work. That also applies to people in charge of the country.
Isabella Stone
Sheffield
• How fitting that you report the rewriting of history (Articles about Native American code talkers removed from military websites, 18 March) in the same week that you have a feature on George Orwell (Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father, 19 March). In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Truth controlled the past to create a narrative that suited the ruling party.
Martin Lunt
Eccleston, Lancashire
• I’ve never been in your Birthdays column, despite some people thinking I am one of the foremost Jewish, non-Zionist socialist magicians in the UK. But I’d never complain and I’m not disappointed (Letters, 21 March). For anyone interested, I will be 72 on 30 April.
Dr Ian Saville
London
• On a trip to Tate Britain in 2019, our five-year-old granddaughter said “too many mens”, and her seven-year-old brother was very bored until he found the looping vomiting video (Letters, 20 March).
Jenny Moir
Chelmsford
• When the mega-wealthy have been taxed to the extent that there are no mega-wealthy individuals remaining – that’s the time to cut the benefit incomes of the poorest and most vulnerable. Not before.
Wal Callaby
Whatfield, Suffolk
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