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SIR – I served 23 years in the Royal Air Force and for the last two was part of a recruitment team (Letters, January 29). The training for this role included an extensive specialist course on recruitment techniques and policies, and a visit to many training establishments that enabled me to offer advice to potential recruits on their chosen trade. I feel this specialist training, together with my personal experience of Service life and conditions, allowed me to encourage, test and eventually rec

SIR – Liz Truss, who claims to have been “brought down by the Left-wing economic establishment”, was the first prime minister in decades to hold genuinely Conservative views.

15 March 2021 • 12:02am A well-wisher lays a bunch of flowers to honour Sarah Everard before the vigil at Clapham Common on Saturday night Credit: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP SIR – Two wrongs do not make a right. The vigil for Sarah Everard at Clapham Common should not have taken place when Covid-19 is still rampant. However, the police response, which included tackling women to the ground and physically overpowering them, was equally wrong. The police were doing exactly what the women were protesting against. Mick Ferrie Mawnan Smith, Cornwall SIR – The policing at Clapham Common is receivi...

House of lords international women's day iwd covid impact on women

Credit: yui mok/pa SIR – A vaccine protects the recipient, so why should anyone who has received one worry about being near someone who hasn’t? Vaccine “certificates” to enter shops and pubs are therefore a ridiculous idea. Joe Greaves   SIR – Allowing unvaccinated staff to work in care homes puts at risk the lives of residents, workers and visitors. For care workers, vaccination should be as much a condition of employment as turning up for work on time. We don’t permit airline pilots to fly while drunk on the grounds that demanding sobriety would infringe their liberties. Marion...