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Lawrence of Arabia was one of these. People who protested slavery were also ridiculed and the list is endless where ordinary people have ‘called out’ the status quo of unjust systems.

John Bishop says uttering condemnatory words won’t change anything. How defeatist. How contrary to our own history when we spoke out about apartheid in South Africa?

I applaud those with courage who do not turn the blind eye but who confront current realities. Rather than ‘‘posturing, parading and gratifying’’, in other times such actions have been called ‘‘prophetic’’.

Marie Venning, Dallington (abridged)