We know the NHS is under exceptional pressure. Applications to study nursing have slumped by 23% for 2017/18 (Would-be nurses abandon their dream as promise of degree training is broken, 27 June). The number of EU nurses registering to practise in the UK has fallen by 96% in less than a year. Can any reasonable person doubt that this government and its Tory predecessors are deliberately starving the service of essential funds in order to open up opportunities for profit for its wealthy cronies?
Linda Rhead
London
• Why not sail HMS Queen Elizabeth (UK’s new aircraft carrier, 27 June) to the Port of London, where it could accommodate and feed people decanted from tower blocks? This might be a better use of taxpayers’ money than planning to bomb foreigners in five years’ time.
Aidan Turner-Bishop
Preston
• As a young Catholic choirboy, I never thought in my old age I would thank a group of Orange Order persons for saving my triple-lock pension, and winter fuel allowance (May hands £1bn bonanza to DUP to cling on at No 10, 27 June). You could not make it up.
Jim McLoughlin
Liverpool
• My daughter’s horse Oliver has a swift’s nest in his stable (Packed to the rafters, 28 June). He is not interested.
Joyce Blackledge
Formby, Merseyside
• Re Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s article (How sad it is that English-speaking parents fear their children being taught in Welsh, 27 June): Diolch.
Robin Llywelyn
Minffordd, Gwynedd
• Could we have Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s views on Rafael Behr’s use of the word “welch” (Opinion, 28 June)?
Viv Davies
Pen-y-cae, Powys
• We live in Wales and our cat is bilingual: she ignores us in both languages.
Siobhan Tobin
Cardiff
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