While Lawrence Goldman’s obituary (28 October) certainly does justice to David Cesarani and brings home the loss we have suffered, he does not mention the book that had the greatest impact on me: Justice Delayed: How Britain became a Refuge for Nazi War Criminals. This is a truly shocking study that deserves to be remembered as well as his other contributions.
Professor John Newsinger
Bath Spa University
• Whether a transgender woman is a woman or not depends on whether you are speaking sociologically or biologically (Zoe Williams, 26 October). A man can become a woman sociologically, but they remain male biologically, because they cannot change their chromosomes. This is the distinction between Rachel Melhuish and Germaine Greer’s positions, and both are rational.
Janey Huber
Cambridge
• You report George Osborne’s political hero as being Lyndon Johnson (Talk tough but act fast, 28 October). But surely the chancellor is confusing waging a war on poverty and waging a war on the poor.
Tony Cole
London
• Martin Kettle writes (23 October): “It is good that there is no war memorial to the dead of Agincourt.” But there is – All Souls College, Oxford, founded to pray for the dead of the war with France.
Peter Grant
Oxford
• While I am not keen to have to travel by “bus replacement” to a “caravan holiday” and there eat “oven chips” (Letters, 28 October), I would seriously consider it if the alternative were eating in a “family restaurant”.
Susan Chivers
Bristol
• I was struck by the headline on Guardian Sport on Saturday (24 October): “Hamilton can power to third world title in Austin”. Seems unlikely.
David Martin
Glasgow
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