The most appropriate and effective way of recognising some of the errors in awarding the football World Cup to Qatar (Editorial, 3 October) would be to encourage players to lower their heads for a short period after the national anthems. This quiet message would reflect the significant loss of life during construction work in the years leading up to the finals.
John Cooper
London
• Ron Poole-Dayan says: “We consider adoption [to be] a form of volunteering. It is not a way to become parents” (‘We are expected to be OK with not having children’: how gay parenthood through surrogacy became a battleground, 1 October). He could not be more wrong. Adopting a child has nothing to do with volunteering and everything to do with becoming a parent.
Pam Barnsley
East Meon, Hampshire
