Years ago I decided to interrupt cold callers (Letters, 11 May) and say: “Just a minute. Let us pray. O heavenly Father, who sees into our hearts. You will know when we are involved in an activity whereby we are trying to dupe an elderly lady out of all of her savings. In the light of this, I know that when I die I will be condemned to hell for an eternity. Amen.” I would then quietly put down the receiver. (One repeated “Amen” after me.) It has worked. I no longer get cold calls.
Lesley Matthews
Shipley, West Yorkshire
The story of the miscarriage of justice that wrongly imprisoned Peter Sullivan for 38 years is difficult to grasp (Peter Sullivan has murder conviction quashed after 38 years in jail, 13 May). The court sketch of Peter by Julia Quenzler did more to convey the tragedy of his story than anything I’ve read. A testimony to her empathy and skill.
Simon Rew
London
I find myself in even greater difficulty. Not only am I considered to be a “citizen of nowhere”, living in “an island of strangers” (Letters, 14 May), but, coming from a coal-mining family and community, I am also “the enemy within”.
Leslie Beaumont
Croston, Lancashire
I’m white and have lived on this island all my life. I don’t want to integrate with people who hold the same negative attitudes towards migrants as Keir Starmer spouted this week. They will always be strangers to me – and me to them.
Nick Price
Newcastle upon Tyne
There would be an outcry if the UK government took a 15% stake in, say, the Telegraph or the Sun. So it cannot be right to permit foreign states to do so (Report, 15 May).
David Murray
Wallington, London
