It was interesting to read the article by Jim Waterson (Death of Elizabeth II leaves BBC with tricky balancing act, 9 September), but I was surprised that nobody at the Guardian saw the irony of the article being placed on page 25 of its own continuous coverage. The reaction of media organisations has been out of all proportion and causes those of us who thought we lived in a modern liberal democracy to despair.
Simon Gibbons
Stoke-on-Trent
• Please, Guardian, give due honour to our late Queen, but don’t join the hysteria and infantilism of the rest of the UK media. We do not need to know who will look after Her Majesty’s corgis. We need to know who will look after refugees following the appointment of Suella Braverman, and who will look after the poor after the appointment of Liz Truss.
John Hambley
Snape, Suffolk
