Derrickg Smith News Today

SIR – I’m sure that, given a choice, everyone would prefer to eat the highest-quality food produced in Britain (report, March 27), but not everyone has the means. If the Government believes it’s safe to allow imports of food produced using methods that are banned in the UK, it should lift that ban. If it wants more wildflowers grown, it should use land that is not highly productive. Farmers are right to protest, but not because of trade deals and tariffs. The culprits are un...

SIR – Professor John Keown’s expertise in ethics (Letters, December 22) is unimpeachable, but he is wrong to suggest that allowing dying people to choose the manner and timing of their deaths would represent the state’s “endorsement” of that choice. It would be just as accurate to suggest that the state is “endorsing” the unnecessary suffering of dying people who would presently want to make that choice.

SIR – Regarding the BBC’s policy towards Gary Lineker, one assumes that when footballers take to the pitch they accept that if they break the rules the referee will sanction them.