Jane Eyles News Today

SIR – Royal Mail’s £5 charge for customers who receive forged stamps (Leading Article, April 12) is misguided and unjust. These people have done nothing wrong, and are being penalised for a crime that others have committed.

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SIR – The government move to make gas boilers illegal by 2035 will not solve the cost-of-living crisis, but make it worse for homeowners.

SIR – Comments by Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, and Lloyd Austin, the US Defence Secretary, on their visit to Ukraine this week suggested that Russia was losing the war and that America wanted to see the Russian military weakened.

SIR – Charles Moore rightly emphasises the importance of firm intent in dealing with dictators, and the cost-effectiveness of Operation Orbital in Ukraine.

SIR – As the heroic Ukrainian resistance seems to be thwarting Russian military ambitions, now is not the time to be talking about lifting sanctions.

SIR – Maros Sefcovic, vice-president of the European Commission, must realise that the EU is disingenuous in proclaiming a desire “to protect the Good Friday Agreement in all its parts”.