Reading your interview with Sajid Javid, with its account of juvenile theft from slot machines, the beatings he received from his father (which Javid himself now recognises as abuse) and the official leniency that he says changed his life, it’s hard to believe that this is the man who, on spurious national security grounds, took away Shamima Begum’s British citizenship for choices she made, or pressures she was put under, as a child.
Mark de Brunner
Burn Bridge, North Yorkshire
• Re Adrian Chiles’s item (Is the wayward apostrophe in WALE’S LARGEST VAPE SHOP a sign of the times?, 29 January), while on holiday in Northumberland last year I visited a delightful cafe that sold various local crafts including handmade “Christma’s card’s”.
Jane Marsh
London
• My mother regarded duvets (Letters, 28 January) as a “continental affectation”. For her, bed-making was all about the neatness of the hospital corners.
Sue Wallace
Thame, Oxfordshire
• Why not have the World Cup in the US (A World Cup boycott over Trump? Football’s hypotheticals cannot be dismissed any more, 22 January)? They had the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and Fifa has already given a prize to our dictator!
Kay Keller
Schenectady, New York, US
• Sincere thanks for making my day last Friday. All the way to page 8 of the print edition before I had to look at a picture of him. A Trumpless edition would do wonders for our collective mental wellbeing. Could you arrange that, please?
Allan Watson
Newcastle upon Tyne
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