SIR – The SNP’s proposed law to make it illegal for parents, psychotherapists and others to try to persuade children and patients to desist from identifying as members of a different gender or sex (report, January 10) represents an extraordinary infringement of personal liberty.
SIR – Recent letters have discussed inheritance tax (December 28). I am 86 years old. I was born and brought up in the Black Country, the eldest of four boys, whose father was a holder up in a steel rolling mill.
‘’If the flood had happened in the middle of the night, we would have been annihilated.’’ Brian Thorne understands the Western Bay of Plenty District Council.