UK news + Letters
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Letters: Pam Walker says the church hierarchy has a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of abuse, and Doug Clark compares Anglican and Catholic scandals. Plus a letter from John van Rooyen
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Letter: Dr Jan Udris notes the catastrophic contribution to global warming, and says the more complex technology is, the more likely it is to go wrong
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Letters: Colin Montgomery says people are tired of being told how backwards they are if they don’t play along with priggishness, while Martyn Thomas ponders societal changes. Plus a letter from Dan Rainey
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Letter: Family farmers are sick with worry after the end of inheritance tax relief on agricultural property – and the breakup of farms will hit food security, writes Cheryl Cottle-Hunkin
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Letter: Geneviève Pons and Pascal Lamy say the UK has a unique opportunity to steer the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources towards a better outcome
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Brief letters: George Browne’s fitted kitchen | Regional restaurants | National Dried Milk | Human infestation | Lysistrata revisited
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Letters: Bridget Phillipson’s call for a culture change in schools is long overdue, say readers
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Letters: While the NHS has been given an exemption to the NIC increase, health services commissioned outside the health service have not, says Greg Fell
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Letters: Readers respond to the government’s proposals to reform the Mental Health Act and end injustice in the treatment of severe mental illness
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Letters: Readers respond to Martin Kettle’s article on the new world order created by Donald Trump’s election victory
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Letter: A former detainee recalls the horrendous conditions in the centre and how violence and death among those detained there become normalised
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Letters: Albert Beale and Paul Parker honour the pacifist movement, while other readers say public poppy pressure has gone too far
Estrangement from a child is like a never-ending bereavement