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SIR – I’m sure that, given a choice, everyone would prefer to eat the highest-quality food produced in Britain (report, March 27), but not everyone has the means. If the Government believes it’s safe to allow imports of food produced using methods that are banned in the UK, it should lift that ban. If it wants more wildflowers grown, it should use land that is not highly productive. Farmers are right to protest, but not because of trade deals and tariffs. The culprits are unjustifiable regulatio
SIR – No amount of political posturing can disguise the fact that our Armed Forces have a major recruitment crisis (report, January 28). There is nothing novel about the recruitment problem, or special to this country: it is why so many nations in both the past and present have resorted to conscription. The preferred British way to resolve the issue, however, has been the centuries-old tradition of a trained citizenry. Today organisations like the National Rifle Association, and events like the
SIR – I was gobsmacked to read that masking at schools in England during the Covid pandemic was introduced after Boris Johnson was told it “was not worth an argument” with Nicola Sturgeon (report, March 2).
SIR – I hoped in my lifetime never to hear the dreadful words, “The Queen is dead” – but of course these words have been immediately followed by “Long live the King.