Tom Benyon News Today

SIR – The West’s cowardice in refusing to confront Iran is shameful (Letters, April 20). Mealy-mouthed words from Joe Biden and Lord Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, will encourage not only Iran but also all of its proxies, who wage war on its behalf. Unless we confront Iran now and destroy its nuclear development sites, we will be staring down the barrel of another major world war. Major Mike Mckone (retd) Kirby Stephen, Cumbria

SIR – Criticism of a religion should not be construed as racism. Did Lee Anderson MP make negative comments about people of a certain ethnicity (report, February 26)? No, he did not. So why do people like Anneliese Dodds, the Labour Party chairman, accuse him of racism, when they know perfectly well that he was speaking about Islamists, who come from many different racial backgrounds? Would criticism of Christianity be construed as racism? Of course not. These people, and many others, are...

Annual award celebrates people who have contributed to society and charitable causes in their later years

SIR – Conservatives need to explain clearly – with reference to the incessant and daily problems in the monopoly NHS – why competitive market change and more self-responsibility are needed.

SIR – The first political event I remember as I grew up was the 1959 election, when Labour candidates were asked how they would pay for their proposals.

CARNO became the latest victims of Ardal North East League title favourites Chirk AAA as the leaders left Ty Brith 2-0 winners this afternoon.

RHAYADER Town continue to prop up the Ardal South East League following a 4-1 defeat at home to Caldicot Town.

Credit: John Cairns/University of Oxford SIR – You report that, out of the 40,000 retired doctors and nurses who applied in March to return, 30,000 were eligible but only 5,000 were given jobs by July. We also read of venues, from racecourses to conference centres, offering space for jabs to be administered – and being ignored. The NHS’s bureaucracy will delay the vaccination programme. While it insists that it can cope, it is all too apparent that every single resource must be used if th...