Alan Stedall News Today

Our readers share how the death duty has wreaked havoc on their lives

Plus: Giving up on Waitrose; the case against 20mph speed limits; a humble D-Day hero; metro manners; and heretical views on Shakespeare

SIR – Just when we thought we finally had a Government that would get the economy back on to a footing of sound money and sustainability, it is derailed.

SIR – Philip Johnston’s comment piece (“A conspiracy of silence about the impact of mass immigration has cost Britain dear”, August 10) is apposite.

SIR – President Joe Biden said that an “invasion” of Ukraine would mean war, but an “incursion” into Ukraine will only trigger sanctions (report, January 21).

SIR – How on earth can the Labour Party possibly support more restrictions and potentially a further lockdown when the effects – on the economy, general health, the impacts of other more serious diseases, and on life itself – are so devastating?

SIR – My mother’s wedding was both green and economical (Letters, June 3). She married in 1945, just after my father was demobbed, and made a rather impressive dress – complete with train – out of my father’s now redundant parachute. My father wore his RAF uniform, because he had no other suit. I can remember the parachute-silk petticoats my mother and I wore for many years afterwards, which she made from the dress and its remnants. Kate Alexander A pipe of peace SIR – Andrew Graham...