Jeff Lewis makes a plea for an updated version of Cathy Come Home (Letters, 28 September). Ken Loach’s new film I, Daniel Blake describes the present iniquities that exist for those drawn into the benefits and housing support system in England. It is as poignant and concerning as Cathy Come Home, and should be viewed by all our politicians.
Ian Proudfoot
Edinburgh
• Re Trump’s suspected non-payment of taxes (Report, 3 October): the US war of independence was based on the demand of no taxation without representation. Should the American people also demand no representation without taxation?
Ruth Sharratt
Bangor, Gwynedd
• Giles Fraser rails against wealth (Loose canon, 4 October). Fair enough. But why should anyone take a Church of England priest seriously when the head of his church (the Queen) and her deputy (the archbishop of Canterbury) live in palaces?
Simon Platman
London
• Peter Bradshaw’s review of The Girl on the Train (4 October) mentions the continuing practice of referring to women as girls. My three-year-old granddaughter sits in the supermarket trolley shouting, “Boys, where are you?” when we lose her brother and grandfather in Morrisons.
Barbara Symonds
Birmingham
• The six English players that made up half of the European Ryder Cup team contributed just one point to its overall tally of 11. Is this another example of the Brexit strategy, one more shameful attempt to sabotage the European ideal?
Stuart McGillivray
Edinburgh
• Masterful omission by the Guardian of the last word(s) of John Crace’s Tory conference sketch: “She was followed on to the stage by Liam Fox, whom the Tories considered to be an….” Please do not inform us of his intended finale, as imagination can fill the gap very adequately.
Deb Nicholson
Barrow Gurney, North Somerset
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