Re your article (Domestic violence screening tool should be replaced, Jess Phillips says, 26 August), can we please not use the word “honour” in the context of violent crimes against female family members, either as part of the Dash questionnaire used by police and social services or in new guidance for a legal definition of “honour-based” abuse. Call it what it is: family violence. The girls and young women mutilated and murdered deserve respect.
Lynne Scrimshaw
London
• I was puzzled by your article (Activists hope to shift Venice film festival focus on to crisis in Gaza, 27 August). Why should the festival have to take a position on Palestine any more than on other tragic problems like Myanmar, Sudan or Tibet? It’s a film festival, not the UN.
John Bowles
Edinburgh
• I’m guessing the gardeners whose veg crops have failed are online readers (Letters, 27 August). It was established long ago that lining your bean trench with physical newspapers helps with water retention. If I’m right, the Racing Post is especially good for runners.
Pete Edmondson
Butleigh, Somerset
• Never mind early autumn fruit and conkers (Letters, 24 August), there’s a fully decorated Christmas tree in a residential area of Edinburgh, with a nice rocking horse in the window to boot.
Alex Dickie
Edinburgh
• Can politicians also desist from the annoying “I say to you” (Letters, 29 August). Who else are you saying it to?
Barbara Riddell
Epsom, Surrey
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