What with ultra-processed foods killing us (Report, 27 August), the environment as well, the NHS in meltdown, the police overwhelmed with crime, prisons in crisis, teachers and doctors striking, the immigration service next to useless, all forms of transport a potluck, the cost of living crisis – we don’t need a wake-up call, we need a sedative.
Michael Fuller
Harpenden, Hertfordshire
• Your article (Prigozhin precedents: a history of assassinations by plane crash, 24 August) could also have included the deaths of the Spanish generals José Sanjurjo, on 20 July 1936, and Emilio Mola, on 3 June 1937. Both were killed in crashes that were suspiciously convenient for Francisco Franco, leaving him unchallenged as the leader of the anti-government forces during the Spanish civil war.
Tim Barker
Eastington, Gloucestershire
• Re whistling (Letters, 27 August), in the 1950s, my grandmother and my father were keen whistlers and I soon learned myself, only for my other grandmother to say: “A whistling woman and a cackling hen, ain’t no good to God nor men.” I took no notice.
Rosemary Chamberlin
Bristol
• Your report (Viktor Orbán-influenced university plans outpost in London, 28 August repeatedly refers to a proposed college funded by the appalling Viktor Orbán as MCC. Can you please find a different name for it?
Neil Cole
Member, Marylebone Cricket Club
• Nadine Dorries tells Rishi Sunak that history will not judge him kindly (Report, 27 August). We don’t need to wait for history to judge her.
Stuart Waterworth
Tavistock, Devon
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