Sir I would like to thank the editor of Life for the recent article and, indeed, the cover of the magazine (‘Motherhood Denied: the agony of the women who can’t be mothers’, by Niamh Jimenez, October 15).
I am writing to express my deep concern about the deteriorating situation in Gaza and the recent statements made by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
With tragedy deepening in Israel and Gaza every day, can I please remind all concerned that there are no winners in war, only victims and losers and the anguish of all those left in its ghastly wake.
Thousands of heavily armed Israeli troops are primed to cut a devastating swathe through the Gaza Strip, which has a population of just over two million.
You enter politics to either promote the belief that civilised protest is preferable to recrimination in the pursuit of equality or you see the political arena as an opportunity to seek change through the violent demonisation of others.