Letters: The trend towards intimidation in politics must be firmly resisted
Plus: England in the final; relaxing visits to Venice; Miliband’s war on locals; Thames Water spills; and restoring postboxes
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Plus: England in the final; relaxing visits to Venice; Miliband’s war on locals; Thames Water spills; and restoring postboxes
Plus: The Tory divide; listening to voters on immigration; jobs for Lords; the BBC’s Wimbledon coverage; and Victorian chocolate
Plus: Labour’s housing pledge; alternatives to first-past-the-post; ringing the bell on chemotherapy; and puddings worth the thorns
Telegraph readers on Tory neglect of traditional supporters, the rise of Reform, and Labour’s failure to capture the nation’s imagination
Plus: Elusive state school places; Sir Keir Starmer’s working day; seagull deterrents; Land Rover scourge; and Wimbledon hairstyles
By turns surprising, funny and touching, a series of letters from Telegraph readers has shed light on a little-known aspect of post-war life
Plus: Backward banking; England’s last-minute magic; museum entry fees; lifelong friendship with a German PoW; and bee-friendly plants
Plus: Jill Biden’s error; Nigel Farage and the BBC; banks complicit in the cashless drive; Churchill and PoWs; and warmed by Coldplay
Plus: America’s presidential candidates; Sue Barker at the BBC; private schools’ future; priorities at the V&A; and a toothless innings
Plus: Tory pleading; elusive £1 coins; silent summer skies; worthwhile apps; serenaded by Italian PoWs; and the island where tractors rule
Plus: David Tennant’s trans rant; PoWs in the garden; same-sex blessings; MPs’ moral compass; and how not to drink beer in Germany
Plus: England at the Euros; replacing the Lords; hospitality towards German PoWs; hectoring Tube posters; and a raging gull
Plus: The Tories’ lack of fresh ideas; Brexit and EU bottle caps; badgers running wild; my father the PoW; and where have the swallows gone?
Plus: China’s rights abuses; how to fix salmon farming; snow at the cricket; reporting rail hazards; and beards at Trooping the Colour
Plus: HMRC howlers; Labour and badgers; Southgate’s struggles; Brahms for the soul; and drinks with Donald Sutherland
Plus: How incompetent Britain is failing cancer patients; Just Stop Oil vandals; a French cinema classic; and fixing the fridge
Plus: Painting postboxes; museum masks; the Troubles Act; trans children’s battle; and parking app pains
Plus: The Boris blight; taboos at Pitt Rivers Museum; Swiss standards; police cruelty; Dr Johnson’s cat; and Harold Wilson at sea
Plus: Turning off oil and gas; inspirational princess; the wit of Harold Wilson; policing animals; and Britain’s unloved pillar boxes
Plus: the human costs of lockdown; punitive stamp duty; defining ‘working people’; Nigel Farage’s fanbase; and marmalade droppers