Once the referendum of 23 June on the EU is out of the way, within the lifetime of many of us there will have been two opportunities to decide on our relationship with the European community. However, not within the lifetime of any of us has there been a referendum on that other issue touching our sovereignty and security, which is our continued membership of Nato. With the prospect in the US of a Donald Trump presidency (Editorial, 23 July), there is even greater urgency that the British people are given a choice. In the interest of democracy and fairness is it not time to redress the balance?
John Cassidy
Norwich
• The changing class demography of the city of Bath explains much of what the EU referendum was all about (Letter from Peter Davis, 23 July). Over recent decades poorer “locals” have been pushed out of the city as property prices have rocketed (these are overwhelmingly the Brexiters). And at the same time an expanding new middle class has moved in (these are, with very few exceptions, the remainers).
Ivor Morgan
Lincoln
• Nor do I wish to gainsay Keith Flett (Letters, 21 July) but the British do not elect prime ministers or parties. They elect people who may be members of a party, or not, and who after being elected may choose to be independent, join an existing party, or start a new one. This could possibly be dramatically illustrated later this year
Alan Pearson
Durham
• Was the Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov, who broke the record for the fastest circumnavigation of the Earth in a hot air balloon, tested for drugs (Opinion, 23 July)?
Tony Murphy
Hoylake, Wirral
• The melting beard wax doesn’t hurt my sandal-clad toes – they’re protected by my socks (Letters, 23 July).
Chris Hughes
Leicester
