Keir Starmer’s focus on knife sales is a futile distraction | Brief letters
Southport attack | Mariann Edgar Budde | Corey Comperatore | Are you Shaw? | BT virtual assistant
Keir Starmer’s reaction to the Southport killings includes addressing knife sales (Report, 22 February). Selling zombie-style blades is indefensible, but almost every domestic kitchen contains sharp knives: hindering under-18s’ access to them is performative but futile, distracting from addressing the real, difficult questions of who wants to kill, why, and whether and how they might be prevented before they break any laws.
Kimon Roussopoulos
Cambridge
• If Georgia’s Mike Collins gets his way (Trump criticizes ‘nasty’ bishop who made pro-immigrant and LGBTQ+ plea, 22 January) and the Right Rev Mariann Edgar Budde is deported, there’s a vacancy over here for a courageous and moral church leader.
Sue Leverton
Marldon, Devon
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