What with ultra-processed foods killing us (Report, 27 August), the environment as well, the NHS in meltdown, the police overwhelmed with crime, prisons in crisis, teachers and doctors striking, the immigration service next to useless, all forms of transport a potluck, the cost of living crisis – we don’t need a wake-up call, we need a sedative.
Michael Fuller
Harpenden, Hertfordshire
• Your article (Prigozhin precedents: a history of assassinations by plane crash, 24 August) could also have included the deaths of the Spanish generals José Sanjurjo, on 20 July 1936, and Emilio Mola, on 3 June 1937. Both were killed in crashes that were suspiciously convenient for Francisco Franco, leaving him unchallenged as the leader of the anti-government forces during the Spanish civil war.
Tim Barker
Eastington, Gloucestershire
