Roger Bolton suggests the BBC director-general doesn’t “have have an experienced chair to talk to” (The BBC did a great job examining the claims against Huw Edwards. Now it has gone too far, 13 July). The acting BBC chair is Dame Elan Closs Stephens, whose distinguished career includes higher education, the arts, government and broadcasting. She has been a longstanding member of the BBC’s governing body, and chaired S4C and numerous other bodies. What more does Bolton want?
Isabel Hitchman
St Fagans, Cardiff
• As the Guardian always says the same (negative) thing about Tony Blair – Iraq, Iraq, Iraq – I make no apology for pointing out, even to John Crace (bless him), that the Iraq decision (The politics sketch, 18 July) was taken to parliament, which was not then required, and that at the time support for joining with the US was about 50/50. And yes, I did go on The March.
Margaret Pelling
Oxford
