It’s heartening that David Cameron has figured out that some communities are so self-enclosed as to be at odds with the wider culture of the UK (Cameron offers parents way to stop young fleeing to join Isis, 21 July). He sees that “there is a danger in some of our communities that you can go your whole life and have little to do with other religions and communities”. Is he reflecting on the limitations of his own experience of Eton, Westminster and the Cotswolds?
Maureen Bell
Newark, Nottinghamshire
• Brian Barder (Letters, 23 July) gives four conditions for bombing Syria. He does not give the first one, which is that there should be no peaceful alternative.
Brendan O’Brien
London
• Here in Norfolk we have had chatty road signs for years (G2, 22 July). They say “Slow you down”. One example is on the approach to Wiveton, near Cley next the Sea on the north Norfolk coast.
Tony Meacock
Norwich
