Credible Corbyn

SIR – May I suggest, in the matter of Jeremy Corbyn and anti-semitism, that he is being misjudged?

Having observed him for a few years now and listened to him speak, I believe him to be a decent man, not anti-semitic, not anything really except instinctively opposed to Western democratic values.

When he says he thinks antisemitism is wrong, I believe him. When he says he hasn’t until recently been informed about this tendency in his own party, I believe he hasn’t noticed it. And when he says he “didn’t really look” at the offensive mural, yet again I believe him.

All this proves is that he is not a bad person, just, well, a bit dim. In the words of the very sponsors he admires so much he counts as “a useful idiot”. He has had his blinkers on for so long they’ll never come off.

We should stop asking questions of a man who has no clue what the answers are. Alisdair Low

Richmond, Surrey

SIR – When did Labour’s trouble with anti-semitism start? Baroness Chakrabarti concluded in her report, only two years ago, that there wasn’t really a problem. Tuppence Hale

Cirencester, Gloucestershire

SIR – Now that the Labour Party’s National Executive has taken on a professional comedian, should we take it more seriously? Richard Buxton

Tadley, Hampshire