Your cover story on whistleblowers was both inspiring and alarming. These people should be given public service awards, and it is a scandal that they are not given full support by the relevant authorities or their colleagues. Unfortunately, elites and managers band together in conspiratorial manner whenever their criminal or careless actions are questioned.
John Green
London W5
While the strength of character and integrity required by whistleblowers is almost superhuman, it is heartbreaking to hear of the subsequent toll on their health, friendships, families and careers. The more that can be done to protect them from the powers that attempt to silence and destroy them, the better.
Andy Roles
Arnold, Nottingham
I whistleblew and it cost me dearly. I am now unemployed and, it seems, unemployable, and I was regretting my actions. Your article made me realise I did the right thing, and I feel less guilty about the impact on my family.
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Lotje Sodderland’s story was uncannily like my own stroke. I was 62, but when you are in your 60s, people think you are pissed or senile – when in actual fact you are back to being three and learning to read, write, see and talk all over again.
Jeff Connor
Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
Do “pro-life” protesters scream abuse outside army recruitment centres because those who join up may have to kill at some point in their career? This is selective protesting, and has nothing to do with wanting to protect life.
Kate Alley
London SW15
Anjelica Huston is prepared to assault her then partner, Jack Nicholson, because of his philandering, yet she is assiduously blasé about the rape of a 13-year-old girl by her friend Roman Polanski.
Kevin Denny
Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Fiona Boyd thought a cow should be shot because it had the temerity to protect its calf, yet she leaves a two-year-old unattended in a house with food cooking on the stove. Some people’s attitudes beggar belief.
Joanna Griffiths
Wallington, London
Yet another story about dangerous cows. It’s becoming as common as people giving up stressful lives in advertising to move to the Med to grow olives. I blame The Archers.
Stuart Hannay
Yell, Shetland
The online help-desk operator says, “You wouldn’t walk into a bank and ask out the receptionist.” Well, 48 years ago I did just that, and we’ve now been married for 45 years.
John Holmes
St Ives, Cambridgeshire
