I congratulate the German chancellor Angela Merkel for her refusal to be intimidated by the disgusting actions of Isis and, more importantly, not to play into its quest for publicity by going to each tragedy when under huge pressure from the press to do so (Merkel defends Germany’s refugee policy after attacks, 29 July). If ever there was someone who richly deserves the Nobel peace prize it is Ms Merkel in her endeavour to help our fellow human beings. A lot more than I can say for our own government.
Paul Doran
Dublin
• Stephen Hawking’s proposed new approach to wealth (Opinion, 29 July) while welcome, has been mooted before. As Ruskin affirmed in Unto This Last, “There is no wealth but life … That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings.”
Austen Lynch
Garstang, Lancashire
• That was a brilliant piece of writing by the soon-to-be-redundant BHS worker (G2, 25 July). Might you offer him or her a job at the Guardian?
Sue Boulding
Baschurch, Shropshire
• Am I alone in being willing to contribute to a class action to regain the missing pension funds for former BHS employees? I would love to see the miscreants squirming in court.
Peter Milton
London
• At school in the early 60s my husband and his friend spent their dinner hour in the art room doing a mural, which included a couple of naked male figures. The head of art’s comment on seeing it was: “Well done, boys, but don’t be feart to put a wee pair of pants on them” (Adam and Eve restored to nudity by museum, 26 July).
Jackie Heaton
Glasgow
• Surely Mike Pender (Letters, 27 July) is mistaken in suggesting that Picasso was the quick crossword setter on 23 July, as he’s no longer with us. I feel certain it was the sublime Joni Mitchell.
Annie Grist
Hebden Bridge
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