The aviation minister believes it is so vital to keep “our regions connected with London” that he’s coughed up a £3m subsidy for Newquay airport (Report, 27 October). I didn’t hear much from the minister when Blackpool airport closed two weeks ago. Perhaps some regions are more important than others.
Ron McGarvey
Sandbach, Cheshire
• Isn’t it ironic that as Sir Nicholas Winton is awarded the highest of civilian honours by the Czech Republic for saving 669 children from the Nazis (Report, 29 October), the Home Office intends to let migrant children and their families drown rather than save them (Report, 28 October)? What does Sir Nicholas think of this, I wonder?
Phil Rhoden
Kidderminster, Worcestershire
• It may be that diets of apples and Diet Coke, or nine eggs a day, are ridiculous and extreme (Why all the ludicrous macho diets, Shortcuts, 28 October) but Charlie Falconer an idiot? Never. Can’t speak for the other two.
Margaret Prosser
House of Lords
• If Rosemary Auchmuty is correct (Letters, 28 October) it follows that there is little point in feminism – after all, women have significant differences between us on the basis of class, colour, religion, wealth etc. It is through what we’ve in common – ie fighting discrimination hatred and violence – that women, black people and disabled people have created movements for change. I’ve lived through many of the struggles for solidarity of the LGBT community and they are little different from the ones I’ve addressed against racism and violence against women. Solidarity or atomisation?
Linda Bellos
Norfolk
• I am 66 years old and I have not led a sheltered life. Penises and menstruation I know about – but what on earth is hydraulics (The woman on a crusade to give the internet generation a porn-free sex education, Family, 25 October)?
Phil Harvey
Leicester
