
Lisa Nandy describes the BBC’s failures as “catastrophic” (Tim Davie admits ‘significant failing’ by BBC over Gaza documentary, 14 July), though as far as I am aware she has not disputed the accuracy of the content of Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. What adjective does she apply to the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, many of them children?
Richard Munro
Oxford
• What those responding to George Monbiot (Letters, 15 July) fail to grasp is that it is not about whether the target of the “joke” is on the right or the left; it is about whether they have power and privilege or not. The “jokes” that Monbiot described are all aimed at those who are disadvantaged in some way; that is what makes them toxic.
Robin Gardner
West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire
• So the two men who felled a tree have received prison sentences of four years and three months (Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years, 15 July). They cut down a tree! When are we going to see any sentences at all for those people responsible for the deaths of 72 people, including 18 children, in the Grenfell fire?
Angela Singer
Cambridge
• About 1,500 days in prison for felling a tree. Justice and value for money would be better served by the guilty men spending their next 750 weekends planting trees.
Ian Garner
Vale, Guernsey
• Anyone who remembers 1976 can advise the government how to end the drought – appoint a minister for drought (Thames Water announces hosepipe ban as dry weather depletes reservoirs, 14 July).
Mary Hutty
Bath
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