Media war on Corbyn

■ Are we returning to the dark days of Thatcherism when the Tories painted miners’ leader Arthur Scargill as a danger to democracy? It worked – the public were duped.

Now it seems to be starting again with the Tories and their rightwing media allies singling out Jeremy Corbyn. I am not a Corbyn supporter, but the Labour Party is not a one-man band and any government would be better than this one. Noel Beresford Bolsover, Derbys

■ As a shop owner it’s very frustrating when people want to pay 75p for the Mirror by debit card, or even worse 20p for a bar of chocolate.

Shop owners like myself want a minimum spend, of say, £2 on cards. As an experiment, one day I said the card machine was down and it surprised me how many customers suddenly found the cash in their bags or pockets!

Anne Folds, Clayton Manchester

■ What is wrong with some members of the so-called human race that they are willing to pay vast sums of money to kill a beautiful wild animal like Mufasa the lion for pleasure (Mirror, Nov 19)? This is not sport and they are cowards. J Barker, Manchester

■ To me, the rise in violent crime can be laid firmly at the door of this Tory Government with the colossal cuts to the police and community officers since 2010, instigated by the then Home Secretary Theresa May. This country cannot be policed on the cheap. K R Moreton Draycott, Derbys