Witch-hunters of woke are all too plain to see

KEIR STARMER is wrong to state that the Government is obsessed with wokeness in organisations. the evidence of the malady is perfectly obvious.

Minority interest groups are adept at looking for any morsel of supposed ‘ wrong thinking’ and claiming it as evidence of bias.

Diversity, equality and inclusion has morphed into an ideology within the public and charity sectors, so the Rnli is now proud to boast of being a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

I thought the only boast it needed was that all of its funding came from private donations.

DES MORGAN, Swindon, Wilts.

AS SHADOW Culture Secretary thangam Debbonaire says, it is a good idea for children to be questioning. it is part of growing up. But it’s not good to tell them what to question, as keir Starmer suggests. that is dictatorial.

MIKE CATTERALL, Accrington, Lancs.

Uncommon eras

PETER HITCHENS (Mail) is correct that most of us were brought up with BC ( Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini, in the year of our lord). now we are subjected to the aggressive secular dating of BCE (Before common era) and CE (common era).

This is all part of the diminishing of the Christian faith that annoys many of us.

Captain DAVID BOYLE (Church army), liverpool.

Massage danger

MAY i sound a note of caution, after reading erin Dean’s article on neck massage (Good health).

My wife went to see her doctor on a Friday with supposed migraine pain and he gave her a strong neck massage. the following Monday she suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage (bleeding on the brain) which she was lucky to survive. During a lengthy stay in Addenbrooke’s hospital, she was told it was probably caused by the over-zealous massage on an already weakened vein.

RAYMOND NORMAN, Hemingstone, Suffolk.

Veil of tears

NADINE DORRIES says (Mail) ‘covering a woman’s face with a veil is not required by the koran’.

In fact, the Divine Verse of the Veil (al-hijab), as Muslims called it when it was first revealed by the Prophet Muhammad in Medina in the 7th century, is to be found in Sura 33 verse 59 of the Quran.

The Prophet’s wives were receiving unwanted attention from the male companions of the Prophet whenever they left the house. So Allah sent down this verse to Muhammad, saying: ‘o

Prophet! tell your wives and your daughters, and the wives of true believers, to draw their veils close around them (when they go out). that is better, so they may be recognised and not molested’.

Although Ms Dorries is wrong to say the veil is not required by the Quran, i believe she is correct in her opinion that ‘it is a tradition rooted in misogyny and belongs in the Dark Ages’.

MRS PATRICIA HILL,

Torquay, Devon.

Missing the picture

IT WOULD seem easier for an expat to vote (letters) than for this english-born resident to do so.

My family appear in the 1841 Census and their names are on memorials for both world wars. I have been voting in person since i was 21 and have lived in uk for more than 60 years. But i couldn’t vote last year as i had no photographic ID.

CATHERINE OLIVER,

Stevenage, Herts.

Don’t walk off

I RECENTLY saw a report about racist remarks directed at a professional footballer, in response to which the player’s club said the best way to beat such mindless behaviour was for all the players to walk off the pitch.

I couldn’t help thinking that would make matters worse. unfortunately, some low-life spectators lack any moral compass and would be happy to cause players to walk off when their team were losing. there has to be a better solution.

ALAN PERKINS, Wolverhampton, W. Mids.

Quite the reverse

CERTAIN common phrases seem to mean almost the opposite of what the words suggest. i would nominate ‘we are fully committed to’ ( something happened and we didn’t notice); ‘ lessons have been learned’ (history will repeat itself); and ‘Your call is important to us’ (hang up, you wretched nuisance). ALAN GOLDSMITH, Oxted, Surrey.

That’s rich

TONY PERRY, who is concerned about VAT on private school fees (Mail), thinks his is not a wealthy family, as he and his wife earn ‘in the lower £100,000s’. Good God, man. think what you’re saying.

A. JARVIS, Stockport, Cheshire.

Advert heaven

I GREATLY enjoyed Christopher Stevens’s article (Mail) on the era of wonderful ads. But where were the Carling Black label ones?

They featured Mark Arden and Stephen Frost and included my favourite, the Dambusters one, all with the tagline ‘i bet he drinks Carling Black label’. Genius.

L. GILKES, Ansty, Warks.