If the Metropolitan police scrap non-crime hate investigations but still record such incidents as “valuable pieces of intelligence to establish patterns of behaviour” (Met police to end non-crime hate investigations after Graham Linehan case, 20 October), there needs to be a much clearer definition of what is a hate incident that’s justified as being recorded, as opposed to one where an individual expresses their right to disagree with another.
Jonathan Longstaff
Buxted, East Sussex
• Ed Davey wants to know what Katie Lam means by “a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people” (Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported, 20 October). Perhaps she is harking back to the glory days of empire when the upper classes enjoyed Royal Ascot, the Henley regatta and Glyndebourne while the rest of us had to make do with music hall, pigeon racing and bar billiards.
Martin McColgan
Matching Green, Essex
