Americans should boycott school if they want gun policy to change

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If enough Americans protest for more restrictive gun laws, hopefully school shootings will seize to exist. (RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images)

I suggest a Europe-wide boycott of the US for the purposes of tourism. This would surely focus political minds on the issue of gun control. It could be powerful too if the likes of the BBC and the Today programme, as well as our newspaper industry, could act as one and contact the school students of the US to get their voices heard on this issue, as many of them will be the voters the next time around.

Finally, as a European British mother and grandmother, I don’t have to endure the fear that my American counterparts must be experiencing. I suggest that they and the teachers to boycott their schools en masse. If they all refuse to send their children to school, politicians will make an urgent and dramatic change. The minds of their NRA-supporting President, and the Republican Congress and Senate would have to focus on taking strong, meaningful measures. Deeds, not words!

Sandi Dunn
London

Oxfam, it is time to take some responsibility

Oxfam chief executive Mark Goldring suggests his organisation is being treated as though it had “murdered babies in their cots”.

Malnutrition causes more than three million deaths of children under five years of age every year (8,220 per day). Any unnecessary diversion of Oxfam’s resources away from poverty reduction does indeed contribute to the deaths of babies in their cots.

John Doherty
Stratford

Faith schools

If the lessons of Northern Ireland have taught us anything over the past 50 years it is that segregation of schools by faith compounds distrust, suspicion and downright enmity in the population.

At a time when religious differences are being exploited to leverage fear and hatred, the idea of removing the cap on schools is at best sheer folly, at worst criminal incompetence.

Damian Hinds must be prevented from pushing forward with this dangerous policy.

Patrick Moore
Oxfordshire

This is why younger people aren’t buying homes

Why doesn’t someone make the connection between student debt and the fall in home ownership among the younger generation?

Ian Philps
Cheshire

Theresa May can’t make up her mind on tuition fees

Is the Theresa May who appears to be concerned that England has “one of the most expensive systems of university tuition in the world” by any chance related to the Theresa May who voted in Parliament on 9 December 2010 to raise the UK’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 a year?

Sasha Simic
London