Re your editorial on the Palestine Action proscription (15 September), this is a “First they came for the communists” moment. If a Labour government can successfully proscribe a non-violent protest group, a Farage government would be utterly ruthless against those with which it disagrees. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Extinction Rebellion and many others would be at risk.
Nigel Harvey
St Albans
• The TUC general secretary asks for interest rates to be cut to ease inflationary pressure (Report, 17 September), while the US Federal Reserve is fearful that lower rates will cause prices to rise (Report, 17 September). What was that about six economists, seven opinions?
Tom Uprichard
London
• Your report (19 September) tells us that the name of the track-clearing train Ctrl Alt Deleaf is “a pun on the keyboard command control-alt-delete”. Maybe highlight-control-x the tortuous explanation. We got it.
Ed Collard
West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire
• Surely it is time to end the use of the word “broken” in our political discourse. The phrase has become so overused as to be meaningless, obfuscating whichever issue it is being called upon to describe.
Sarah Mulholland
Goldsithney, Cornwall
• Ian Grieve says he’ll miss travelling by narrowboat (Letters, 17 September). Is he giving up life on the Gordon Bennett? I think he should enlighten us.
Sue Leyland
Hunmanby, North Yorkshire
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