If the Metropolitan police scrap non-crime hate investigations but still record such incidents as “valuable pieces of intelligence to establish patterns of behaviour” (Met police to end non-crime hate investigations after Graham Linehan case, 20 October), there needs to be a much clearer definition of what is a hate incident that’s justified as being recorded, as opposed to one where an individual expresses their right to disagree with another.
Jonathan Longstaff
Buxted, East Sussex
• Ed Davey wants to know what Katie Lam means by “a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people” (Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported, 20 October). Perhaps she is harking back to the glory days of empire when the upper classes enjoyed Royal Ascot, the Henley regatta and Glyndebourne while the rest of us had to make do with music hall, pigeon racing and bar billiards.
Martin McColgan
Matching Green, Essex
• Re your article (Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say, 20 October), what this actually shows is that we need a statutory right to “pen and paper” access to banks and utilities firms.
Michael Heaton
Warminster, Wiltshire
• Regarding voice training for actors (Letters, 21 October), without mics on stage linked to an induction loop, theatre would be inaccessible for me and others with hearing impairments.
Martin Giddey
Southsea, Hampshire
• Now that the sumo wrestlers have left London, they presumably know how many holds it takes to fill the Albert Hall (Letters, 19 October).
Mike Abbott
Chiswick, London
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