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SIR – Your correspondent David Malia (Letters, May 26) asks why Theresa May is criticised on social media but Jeremy Corbyn is not.

The reason is that she is in power but he is not. It is human nature to rail against authority.

Were he in power, though, such organs of criticism would be suppressed and the complainant punished. Fiona Wild

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

SIR – There is a simple explanation for the phenomenon Mr Malia observes.

Rightists think Leftists are misguided; but Leftists, convinced of their intellectual and moral superiority, believe that Rightists are evil. Patrick Jordan

Glasgow