The Royal College of Midwives has focused on the wrong issue (Breastfeeding: woman’s choice must be respected, midwives told, 12 June). The real question is why the UK has “one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world”. The concern is that its latest pronouncement, which does not adequately address the problem, may lead to even lower rates.
Professor Stephen Kennedy
Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford
• Jim Michie (Letters, 14 June) suggests a new constitutional and electoral system for the UK that would include regional assemblies, a second chamber representing the constituent nations of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and some form of proportional representation. We should ask Angela Merkel for some tips as this is precisely the way they organise things in Germany.
Paul Tattam
Chinley, Derbyshire
• Responding to Melanie White (Letters, 15 June), I could equally well ask why Chris Packham’s dog has an owner. The dog has arguably as much right to its place on the planet on which it evolved, and is a damn sight less environmentally disastrous than the owner, however well-intentioned the owner in question.
Tony Rimmer
Lytham St Anne’s, Lancashire
• I notice a tempting invitation to write a name after the cerise oblique at the end of the “ThamesLink/” logo of the rail operator. Any suggestions?
Chris Kington
Cambridge
• The red half of Merseyside may have had a saint in their team (Letters, 15 June). But Everton had the Angel Gabriel. Known as Jimmy to the fans.
Jim Parry
Crosby, Merseyside
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