It was Margaret Thatcher who, just a few months before being elected as prime minister in 1979, declared: “I am not a consensus politician, I am a conviction politician.” Following his recent trial (Report, 31 May), Donald Trump can now certainly be described as the latter, and unfortunately this bodes ill for the forthcoming US election.
Adrian Brodkin
London
• Karl Sabbagh’s letter (28 May) reminds me of a time I took my mother, who had been blind from birth, to hospital. She and my blind father brought me up and he worked as pianist and piano tuner. The nurse said to me: “Can she feed herself?” I wish I’d had a camera. My mother’s face was a picture.
Joyce Blackledge
Formby, Merseyside
• Let me defend your Quick Crossword setter against Pete Wolstencroft’s criticism (Letters, 28 May). He seems to think “Ceylon, as was” should mean “what Ceylon used to be called”, but surely it means, as the setter intended, “what used to be called Ceylon”, that is, Sri Lanka.
Michael Bulley
Chalon-sur-Saône, France
• The best put down for a beer served short is to point out, in a friendly way, that if they filled it to the top they’d sell more beer (Letters, 31 May).
Colwyn Lee
Swarkestone, Derbyshire
• I fit the bill perfectly as a Guardian-reading pensioner with a Waitrose card who has never voted Tory (Letters, 31 May). Too old to change my spots.
Helen Royle
Tideswell, Derbyshire
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