A very big thank you to Charlotte Higgins for her wonderful article (Art shows the surreal reality of wartime Ukraine in a way the news never could, 25 February). This should be circulated to departments of education everywhere and to all the other people who would eliminate art, literature and music from our schools and universities. The value of these disciplines can never be replaced by Stem subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), despite what we are being led to believe. A world without the humanities would be a very bleak world indeed.
Dr Wendy Quinlan-Gagnon
Ottawa, Canada
• To those correspondents who fear being labelled antisemitic if they criticise the actions of the Israeli government (Letters, 21 February), can I refer them to a relevant part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism: “criticism of Israel similar to that levelled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic”.
Pauline Cade
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
• James Cleverly need not worry about malign states using AI deepfakes to interfere in a UK election (Report, 25 February). Any malign actor wanting to cause mayhem in the UK would surely act to keep the Tories in power.
Richard Holloway
Nailsea, Somerset
• Re David Mole’s cuckoo (Letters, 28 February). Did anybody think to check if it was heard on the hour?
John Woolley
Cranswick, East 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.
