Malcolm Geddis News Today

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.

SIR – The United States may have succeeded in killing the Islamic State “planner” behind the Kabul airport attack, but the fact remains that, to all intents and purposes, it is abandoning Afghanistan to its fate.

SIR – The mission in Afghanistan was not to create a Jeffersonian democracy.