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| The Home Office is looking for 550 new (junior level) people to manage its borders. Applicants must be UK nationals with an added criteria of having previously served in the police or the army (who don’t restrict their posts to UK nationals only). So as an Irish passport holder, living in the UK for the last 30 years, I’m considered good enough to shoot, or be shot at for the country and even represent its people as an MP in the UK parliament but I’m not to be trusted with opening a passport or a suitcase – I despair!Sara CoakleyLondon | The Home Office is looking for 550 new (junior level) people to manage its borders. Applicants must be UK nationals with an added criteria of having previously served in the police or the army (who don’t restrict their posts to UK nationals only). So as an Irish passport holder, living in the UK for the last 30 years, I’m considered good enough to shoot, or be shot at for the country and even represent its people as an MP in the UK parliament but I’m not to be trusted with opening a passport or a suitcase – I despair!Sara CoakleyLondon |
| • Theresa May can sneer all she likes about antisemitism in the Labour party, but I’m much more alarmed at the refusal to acknowledge the pervasive racism in her own (Mother says Windrush stress caused son’s death, 19 April).Fr Julian DunnGreat Haseley, Oxfordshire | • Theresa May can sneer all she likes about antisemitism in the Labour party, but I’m much more alarmed at the refusal to acknowledge the pervasive racism in her own (Mother says Windrush stress caused son’s death, 19 April).Fr Julian DunnGreat Haseley, Oxfordshire |
| • Was it a coincidence or was there something more sinister about the fact that Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech was delivered on 20 April – Adolf Hitler’s birthday?Phil GarnerDerby | • Was it a coincidence or was there something more sinister about the fact that Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech was delivered on 20 April – Adolf Hitler’s birthday?Phil GarnerDerby |
| • Please will you stop illustrating the Proms – the world’s greatest music festival – with a picture of the only event out of over 90 concerts at which people wave flags (Report, 19 April).Colin MatthewsLondon | • Please will you stop illustrating the Proms – the world’s greatest music festival – with a picture of the only event out of over 90 concerts at which people wave flags (Report, 19 April).Colin MatthewsLondon |
| • I couldn’t agree more (Pupils’ poor reading habits blamed for limited vocabularies, 19 April). I have rarely heard a young person say “I said” or “He/she said”. It’s nearly always “I was like” or “He/she was like”. What is it with the “like” word?Peter WardLondon | • I couldn’t agree more (Pupils’ poor reading habits blamed for limited vocabularies, 19 April). I have rarely heard a young person say “I said” or “He/she said”. It’s nearly always “I was like” or “He/she was like”. What is it with the “like” word?Peter WardLondon |
| • Gordon Bennett! We never seem to hear from Ian Grieve and his boat on the Shropshire Union canal when the warm weather arrives.Ivor MorganLincoln | • Gordon Bennett! We never seem to hear from Ian Grieve and his boat on the Shropshire Union canal when the warm weather arrives.Ivor MorganLincoln |
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