Your report (Revealed: the poverty pay behind the charity slogans, 22 January) did not mention how much the factory was paid for its T-shirts. The reason we can’t pay our workers more is because we don’t get a fair price. The report also refers to “impossible” targets being set for workers in “inhuman working conditions”. In an air-conditioned factory, targets are set by industrial engineers, and there’s a science in the process. The over-generalisation of Bangladeshi factories having “gross violations of labour laws and human rights” in the report is unacceptable.
Rubana Huq
Managing director, Mohammadi Group, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Nice try to indulge in cultural appropriation by claiming a “wealth of evidence” suggests that haggis is English (Shortcuts, G2, 21 January). What about all the similar traditional dishes across Europe, from Romania’s drob to Sweden’s pölsa?
Norman Miller
Brighton
• The law requires most judges to retire at 70 and jurors to be no older than 75 (Journal, 23 January). Don’t these limits, based on assumptions about the capacity for judgment, suggest how to ensure a sensible result in any future EU referendum?
Tony Cole (70.9 years)
London
• Given the behaviour of the US towards Venezuela (US puts ‘full weight’ behind regime change in Venezuela, 24 January), is it time for the UK to recognise Nancy Pelosi as the head of state of the US?
Gerry Emmans
Edinburgh
• The Queen v Prince Philip (Letters, 24 January) has already happened. See Steve Bell’s If… strip in G2.
Keith Baker
Hemsworth, West Yorkshire
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