Bank left me alone as my firm hit trouble
Your report last week revealing that Lloyds Bank chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio earns £6.3 million a year did not surprise me. The bank is getting rich off the backs of its downtrodden customers.
I had a loan of £500,000 for my business. Everything was going well with the repayments, but one or two months a year I struggled to pay my monthly mortgage.
Instead of helping me, the bank threatened to sell my business at auction unless I came up with the amount that was owed to them and said I could no longer be their customer. So much for its slogan ‘You’re not alone’. I was very much alone. Jolene Cooper, Great Torrington, Devon
Loud and proud
‘You have to be loud to be heard!’ said your headline for the interview with Emily McEnroe, daughter of John McEnroe and Tatum O’Neal. The 27-year-old, whose parents’ marriage broke down when she was three, says she has been in therapy ‘since childhood’ but you described her as ‘anything but self-pitying’. Now she wants to be an actress. Good for her, I say. The world needs more
optimistic folk like her. Amanda Yates, Newcastle
9/11 slur
In discussing antiSemitism in his book about Jeremy Corbyn, Tom Bower deploys the phrase ‘Islamic attacks of 9/11’. There was nothing Islamic about those atrocities, just as there was nothing Christian about the genocide of Bosnians by Serbs or nothing Jewish about the massacre of Muslims by the Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein.
The fact individuals who were Muslim perpetrated the attacks do not make the attacks Muslim, nor does it mean that the author should slur all adherents to Islam with these attacks. AntiSemitism is a blot on our society, and like other forms of bigotry, it should be confronted without scapegoating other minorities.
Harun Khan, Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain