It seems that the government has decided to cancel the Afghan relocations and assistance policy and the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme to new applicants with no notice. As of 3pm on 1 July, it is impossible for Afghan people who worked with the British army to seek refuge in the UK. They were promised refuge, but it is no longer available. Readers may remember that in August 2021, a plane loaded with Afghan dogs and cats was allowed to travel here, at the expense of endangered Afghans. Surely we still owe the Afghan people recompense for that.
Nicky Campbell
Chair of trustees, Refugees Welcome, Cheshire East
• That pernicious little worm of one-upmanship that lurks in my soul was gratified to learn that I met most of your criteria for coolness (‘You know it when you see it’: experts size up scientists’ attempt to define cool, 5 July). However, I find that as one grows old in these straitened times, being cool is less pressing than being cold.
Roger Emmerson
Edinburgh
• David Cooper (Letters, 6 July) might like to know of a previous inspired delivery by Royal Mail. In the 1930s, my late father, then an impecunious teacher, was camping in Cornwall for his summer holiday. His uncle sent him a postcard addressed to “Pat Lister, camping under a hedge near Bude”. It was safely delivered by the local postman.
Rupert Lister
Gnosall, Staffordshire
• Marilyn Rowley might be right when she says “it is what it is” (Letters, 6 July), but it wasn’t like that back in the day.
David Cordingley
Lincoln
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