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'Hopefully this government will not remain in power for much longer' says reader
What exactly is this Labour government doing? Less than two weeks after Ethiopian sex offender Hadush Kebatu was wrongfully released from prison, we find out two more offenders were let out by mistake (Metro, Thu).
This, despite deputy prime minister David Lammy’s assurances that ‘the toughest checks we’ve ever had in the prison system’ had been put in place after the Kebatu debacle. This is gross incompetence – mistake after mistake! Hopefully this government will not remain in power for much longer. Peter Morgan, London
Are police failings due to ‘years of Prison Service cutbacks’
Could it be that the recent accidental prison releases and the regularity of prison officers being found guilty of dereliction of duty – such as Aimee Duke of HMP Five Wells being jailed in August for having an inappropriate relationship with an inmate – are connected to years of Prison Service cutbacks, including the use of outsourcing companies for many procedures? Robert Boston, Kent
Government have committed ‘economic suicide’, says reader
What a gigantic waste of money the Christian monument, The Eternal Wall Of Answered Prayer (Metro, Mon), is – not to mention being an eyesore.
The 51m-tall giant möbius strip, planned for Coleshill near Birmingham, will cost around £40million. Surely it would have been more Christian to donate those funds raised to help starving people around the world.J Smyth, via email
Our economy is a knowledge economy and for that we need graduates from first-class universities and institutions. But our universities are in financial crisis and rely on international students, who pay over the odds to study here.
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If the flow of these students dries up, our universities will wither away.
It is already getting harder for international students to come here, thanks to the idiotic attempts of recent governments to stop immigration.
And what are this government doing? They are making it even worse, by proposing an extra six per cent levy on tuition fees for foreign students.
The phrase ‘economic suicide’ is thrown around a lot but that’s what this is. Helen Shaw, Liverpool
Reader points out Musk’s hypocrisy when claiming to care about girls’ and women’s safety
Elon Musk has been ranting about migrants ‘raping children in small towns’ (Metro, Wed).
If he is so concerned about young girls being mistreated, perhaps he should offer to pay the £80,000 ‘blood money’ to free a former child bride facing execution in Iran, reported the same day.
Goli Kouhkan, now 25, was married at the age of 12 and gave birth aged 13. She suffered physical and emotional abuse for years and her husband was killed while Goli and a cousin were protecting her son from his violence. Nivek, London
The history of Frankenstein is quite monstrous, reader points out
Further to the debate about the new Frankenstein film (MetroTalk, Thu). The truth is stranger than fiction because Mary Shelley’s book was possibly inspired by a Polish plague in 1606.
Eight undertakers confessed under torture to making a powder from corpses and spreading it, causing plague. They were mutilated, then burnt to death. Terry, Somerset
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