Remember detained mum still abandoned in Iran

JUST now we can’t escape the obsession with a traitor who wanted to destroy our country but who now wants us to bring her and her offspring home.

She presumably now hopes for a home, money and support from the very people she turned her back on.

I wonder why such efforts are not being made on behalf of another lady who went abroad? Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe took her daughter to Iran to meet her parents four years ago and was arrested on trumped-up charges of espionage and now languishes in jail.

She is not married to a terrorist, has done nothing wrong and now suffers ill health with no respite in sight.

If anyone deserves our wholehearted support and assistance it is her. She just wanted her parents to see the little girl.

As for Begum, I’d find an isolated spot in the Syrian desert and leave her to make her own way back.

Jill Basten, Headley Down, Hants blame’ for Honda axe”, February 20.) We are at a crossroads. The green lobby has all but killed off diesel cars and will now turn all its attention to petrol driven cars. So the global automobile business has to change.

Most will assume that Germany and Japan will simply regroup and lead the way in electric cars.

But we have the skilled labour, production lines, the wit and the ingenuity to take this industry by the scruff of the neck and make it our own.

The British government should be preparing to back this new opportunity straight after Brexit.

John Petitt, Stevenage, Herts