Rory Kinnear has written eloquently about his sister before but this article was heart-wrenching (On the day of No 10’s lockdown party, I buried my sister, 12 January). Boris Johnson and every Tory MP should be made to read it. If they do not feel guilty afterwards, they are inhumane and do not possess a conscience.
Val Malone
Edinburgh
• If Boris Johnson’s intellect is so suboptimal that he cannot recognise a party when he encounters one, do we really want him in charge of the country? Or maybe he just needs glasses? Could he pop up to Barnard Castle for an optician’s appointment?
Virginia Withers
Chertsey, Surrey
• Norman Baker comments that Prince Andrew had been “well and truly chucked under the bus” (Prince Andrew loses military roles and use of HRH title, 13 January). Would it not be truer to say that Prince Andrew had thrown the royal family under the bus?
Dr Brigid Purcell
Norwich
• As the Tory party and the monarchy, two pillars of the establishment, disintegrate in front of our eyes, I can only assume that Justin Welby is walking round with his fingers crossed, hoping these things don’t come in threes.
George Steel
Liverpool
• I’ll wager that I’m not the only Guardian reader who has just posted a letter addressed to “The Liar, London” (Letters, 13 January).
Stephen Rafferty
Buckland Brewer, Devon
• Further to Philip Clarke’s letter (7 January), in the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers, it is not the Christian soldiers who are “going on before” but “the cross of Jesus”. The soldiers are “marching as to war”.
Frederick Robinson
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
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