One thing distinguishes the four remaining candidates in the Tory leadership contest. Two years ago this week, all of them were ministers in Liz Truss’s 49-day government (Mel Stride knocked out of Tory leadership contest, 10 September). On that basis, the idea of Tory renewal seems remote, which also underlines to the left the importance of a Labour government providing a genuine alternative.
Keith Flett
Tottenham, London
• Zoe Williams writes of traditional online dating sites being “a Hobbesian pre-civilisation hellscape” (Why is dating app Feeld so popular? Fetishes and throuples are only part of the story, 9 September). Does this mean that encounters provided by these websites will be nasty, brutish and short?
John Linacre (5ft 4in)
Stockport, Greater Manchester
• German adjectival endings are playing havoc with your correspondents again! Steve Bourne’s party (Letters, 10 September) are Liberale Demokraten, but if “liberal” is preceded by the definite article, it’s die Liberalen Demokraten.
Paul Tattam
Chinley, Derbyshire
• Why is it necessary to give the age along with the name of each resident interviewed in this article (The meadow mutiny: why a rewilding scheme sparked a residents’ revolt, 10 September)? Surely the Guardian is not an ageist publication.
Susanna Riviere (age withheld)
London
• Lucy Letby was tried, convicted and imprisoned before an inquiry was begun (Report, 10 September). So why are the culprits of the Grenfell fire still at large because the inquiry had to be held first?
Angela Singer
Cambridge
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