Comparing David Davis' work to that of a school project is an insult to primary schools across the country

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David Davis admitted this week that the Brexit impact assessments were not what they seemed (PA)

Tom Peck owes my son a fulsome apology. He describes David Davis’s government department’s virtually non-existent assessments into the impact of Brexit as resembling “a primary school project on trains”.

My son’s recent school train project covered the impact of the Victorian railway boom and subsequent financial collapse, the golden era of 1930s rail travel, post-war nationalisation and the Beeching axe. If Davis had been running the project they’d have said: “Gaaah, trains. Things on rails. Let’s wing it.”

How dare Tom Peck compare my son’s class to a bunch of clueless imbeciles who are totally out of their depth?

Michael O’Hare
Northwood

Theresa May is no traitor

I am not a fan of Theresa May.

In fact I could write an essay on her weaknesses and mistakes. I have also never voted Conservative once.

However I do take exception to Arron Banks’ description of May as a “traitor”. The last time I checked she hasn’t colluded with anyone or sold state secrets.

Just in the same way as Leave EU called 15 Tory MPs a “cancer within their own party”, this is simply not acceptable language. What hope do we have of bringing this country together if this narrative is allowed to go unchecked?

I want my country back too – free from poisonous and dangerous language before another politician or anyone else is killed by someone with hateful views.

Chris Key
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An Irish Sea rail tunnel should be a priority after Brexit

To paraphrase horse racing parlance, Brexit is likely to produce borders verging soft to hard between the UK and the EU 27.

Hence the challenge of post-Brexit potency is to make for a more dynamic UK domestic market complete with more internal trade in goods and services and with more employment and lower prices. Infrastructure is the key.

UK airport expansion to include Belfast and London airports along with abolition of air passenger duty on UK domestic flights is necessary to make for a bigger, better and cheaper domestic air transport sector for benefit of passengers and freight alike.

An Irish Sea rail tunnel is necessary to join up the United Kingdom and intensify domestic economic activity as goods and passengers will be able to join trains at Belfast bound for the likes of London, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh seamlessly and without friction.

John Barstow
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Comparing Roy Moore to Jesus is beyond contempt

As the Alabama Senate race is getting closer, Roy Moore’s campaign is getting more desperate and nasty. His spokesperson is now calling his victims “criminals“. They are literally calling the nine women who were allegedly preyed upon by this man when they were teenage girls “criminals”.

Worse than that, an Alabama church came under fire for a sign on its billboard that compared Roy Moore to Jesus. The sign featured this message: “They falsely accused Jesus! Vote Roy Moore.” I beg your pardon but Jesus, may peace be upon him, was never accused of being a sex offender like Roy Moore. Comparing a man who cared for the sick, the poor, the broken, and who preached self-sacrifice to Moore is beyond vile.

Shame on the Republican Party for supporting his campaign.

Mahmoud El-Yousseph
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Peace mediation in the Middle East is not safe in the hands of Trump

From the time of the unjust and unwarranted Balfour Declaration 100 years ago the Palestinians have suffered a series of hammer blows to their aspirations and dignity. Decades of expropriation of their land, forced eviction from their properties and forced exile to neighbouring and distant lands, and illegal occupation of much of the territory they still possess, has left this proud ancient nation dispirited and forlorn.

In a dispute such as the Palestine-Israeli conflict it is imperative that the chief peace broker is impartial and aims to facilitate agreements and treaties that are fair to both sides. The single most important issue in this dispute is the position of Jerusalem. In order to have a meaningful and functional two-state solution the utterly dispossessed Palestinians have as their central demand the provision of East Jerusalem as their capital, and previous US administrations have inched towards making this justifiable compromise a reality.

However, in a single drastic move, the current US President, by officially recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, has destroyed any chance of a peaceful negotiated settlement to this long-raging dispute, and has effectively ended any chance of a two-state solution. In so doing, President Trump has again betrayed evidence of his complete lack of understanding of foreign affairs, and his personal prejudices against certain ethnic/racial/religious groups.

Peace mediation is not safe in his hands, and while his administration is in power the US cannot be the chief peace broker in the Middle East. Instead this role must be undertaken by a special committee under the direct auspices of the UN Secretary General.

Professor Naseem Ansari
Bahrain

The Tories are used to jumping off cliffs

Following Richard Greenwood’s comments advising that due care is needed before leaping off bridges, it occurs to me that many government ministers are Oxbridge graduates where the tradition is to leap of Magdalen Bridge on May morning with abandon.

Ann Smith
Southport