The transport secretary said she’d “struggle to sleep” if she had been running Heathrow, after reports that the airport’s chief executive slept during the early hours of its power cut crisis last week (Report, 24 March). I – and, I suspect, most travellers – would prefer the person in charge of an airport to have had a good night’s sleep before going to work. That also applies to people in charge of the country.
Isabella Stone
Sheffield
• How fitting that you report the rewriting of history (Articles about Native American code talkers removed from military websites, 18 March) in the same week that you have a feature on George Orwell (Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father, 19 March). In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Truth controlled the past to create a narrative that suited the ruling party.
Martin Lunt
Eccleston, Lancashire
