Price of free speech

SIR – Yesterday we bought two copies of The Daily Telegraph, the first incomplete, thanks to Extinction Rebellion, and then a second, when the full version was available. It was a price worth paying for free speech.

David Harrington

Weeley, Essex

SIR – Churchill said: “Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force.”

Boris Johnson must be aware of this quotation. Does he realise that, every time he wishes that Extinction Rebellion would just go away so that he can concentrate on something else, he is, in fact, giving in?

Thomas Hamilton-Jones

Monmouth

SIR – Any sympathy I might have had for Extinction Rebellion’s cause evaporated with yesterday morning’s mist when my copy of The Daily

Telegraph failed to arrive.

Their action in preventing the printing and distribution of daily newspapers must alienate the very members of the public whose support they crave. Peter Moss Faringdon, Oxfordshire

SIR – Should the late lamented Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker’s spinning in his grave have slowed a little over Brexit, I’m sure he has gone into overdrive with Extinction Rebellion’s latest attack on democracy, while using climate change to justify their actions. Phillip Wade Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

SIR – I was unable to read my Telegraph yesterday owing to protests by climate change activists. A Merseyside police spokesperson was reported as saying: “Officers are speaking with members of the group.”

If I am ever caught speeding on Merseyside I look forward to an officer “speaking” with me about it. David Garstang Preston, Lancashire

SIR – Why was Piers Corbyn fined heavily for a peaceful anti-lockdown demonstration, when the Extinction Rebellion idiots are allowed to wreak havoc once again? How many £10,000 fines will be levied on them? Stella Wilson Tandragee, Co Armagh

SIR – I support the action taken by Extinction Rebellion UK at your print works. The climate and ecological emergency is the most important crisis facing our planet and should have much greater coverage and honesty in your publications. Rachel Emmett Beeston, Nottinghamshire

SIR – A small group of woke nutters now believes that among other powers that it ought to have is the right to decide what newspapers should publish and what readers must read.

What a strange place my homeland has become. Geoffrey Reynolds Camborne, Cornwall