BUTT OUT, BREXIT SPY

Tory whip and Brexiteer Chris Heaton-Harris wants to know which lecturers are teaching students about Brexit (Mirror, Oct 25). Some of us are old enough to remember Thatcher and Reagan castigating the USSR for “brainwashing” citizens.

It’s none of his business what is taught in universities, and politicians can bleat about course content when they start showing some accountability and transparency themselves. Terry Maunder, Leeds

How on earth could anybody eat food in front of any living creature quite obviously starving and not even show a glimmer of compassion, as we saw in your article about bears outside restaurants in Armenia (Mirror, Oct 25).

The children in that photo will consider it normal in later life to dismiss others’ feelings. It turns my stomach.

Garry Larkin Westerham, Kent

Fines are increasing for easily targeted litter bugs, but I recently had a Freedom of Information request answered which showed in Liverpool only three cyclists were fined for being on pavements.

That’s much more hazardous to pedestrians and children than a piece of litter. Cyclists are untouchable as it’s healthy, but it’s not for those of us using the pavements.

S Shale, Liverpool