Calls to cancel Donald Trump’s second state visit to the UK are understandable (Letters, 2 March), but not necessarily helpful in terms of achieving a peace deal for Ukraine and a reduction in Vladimir Putin’s influence. For those reasons, he should not only come but should be treated as a statesman by politicians and the royal family.
This does not, of course, mean that the public should tread the same path. Given that he basks in attention, one option is to give him none: let him drive along empty roads and parade in front of no one who does not need to be there. There is another option: I’d put money on the idea that what he hates more than anything else is to be laughed at. Very, very loudly.
Anne Cowper
Swansea
