Christopher Timbrell News Today

SIR – Katharine Birbalsingh – the head teacher of Michaela Community School, which faces a High Court challenge for its ban on prayer rituals (report, January 18) – deserves support.

SIR – It looks like immigration is the new Brexit. We have a Government unable – or, more likely, unwilling – to do what the majority wants. Time for an election, Mr Sunak. Simon Warde Bognor Regis, West Sussex

SIR – Your Leading Article (“Only bedrock reform can fix the NHS”, January 16) rightly concludes that the health service cannot survive in its current form.

SIR – How refreshing to read Davis Frost’s clear reaffirmation of Conservative values (Comment, April 30).

SIR – Boris Johnson has claimed that nobody told him the gatherings at No 10 were against the rules (report, January 19).

SIR – With all the leaks it was known that the Leeds HS2 leg was to be scrapped, but I remained hopeful until the last moment that the new proposals were not true.

SIR – Esther McVey is spot on.

Christopher Timbrell   SIR – One sad repercussion from the Oprah Winfrey interview is the long-term effect on the Sussexes’ children. Meghan came from a broken family, but in attacking Harry’s family she has prevented Archie and his sibling having the affinity that Harry had with his cousins and wider family. Harry describes his father and brother as “trapped”. He seems to be confusing this with them carrying out the duties that are expected of them. It was clear from seeing the wide...

Police officers in Trafalgar Square in London SIR – Derbyshire police have harassed people and issued Fixed Penalty Notices for activities that are permitted by the Covid regulations. Failure to distinguish between guidance and statutory regulations indicates a level of incompetence by senior management which surely requires a visit by a member of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary. David Over   SIR – I wholeheartedly agree with His Honour Charles Wide (Letters, January 11). Law and guidance ...

Britain’s aircraft carriers have played a vital role SIR – Sir Max Hastings never misses an opportunity to have a dig at Britain’s aircraft carriers, most recently in a report about armoured recce vehicles (December 29). I am uncertain whether Sir Max has ever set foot on an aircraft carrier, but he will recall, as a writer about global conflict, that in the Second World War Germany, Italy and Japan could not have been defeated without the critical contribution of aircraft carriers in the...