We must make solving the Rohingya crisis our main focus

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The international community must work to solve the Rohingya refugee crisis (Getty)

The Rohingya humanitarian crisis should not disappear from the global consciousness. It is time to tackle the underlying causes that led millions to flee their countries. Failure to do so would only act to prolong the conflict.

This reminds me of the Arab-Israeli crisis: the refugee question is far from being solved; Israelis continue to colonise more territories and Palestinians continue to live in a land so wracked with systematic violence, injustices, prejudices, persecution, tribalism, hatred, terror and ethnic cleansing.

The international community must grapple with the realities of the world beyond mere words and hollow promises.

Dr Munjed Farid al Qutob
London NW2

Let’s make everything blue, not just passports

The Tory revival of blue passports begs an obvious question: why stop at travel documents? Surely now is the time to press ahead vigorously with the process of colourisation, most obviously by reintroducing blue body (or at least facial) painting for patriotic members of the Tory arty.

The practice was only stopped by much earlier European interference (during the Roman period). Indeed Roman sources sometimes referred to ancient Britons as the Picti – “those who are painted [blue]”.

The revival of Woad horticulture in East Anglia would more than make up for Brexit’s decimation of City jobs.

Colm Campbell
Bournemouth

Not only will the new UK passports be the wrong shape and size but, instead of a proper dark blue, they are to be produced in a shade akin to that of Scotland’s national flag (the Saltire) which I can only presume is a doomed attempt by Theresa May’s Government to appeal to Scottish National Party voters.

John Eoin Douglas
Edinburgh

A war with Russia would benefit no one

US marine corps commandant Robert Neller has told his soldiers: “I hope I am wrong but there’s a war coming.”

We should caution Gen Neller from making such inflammatory and totally inappropriate remarks during this unstable period in world affairs. The US and Nato were unable to unseat Syria’s President Assad despite the best of their efforts, and now they want to take on the world’s largest nation by area with more nuclear weapons than any other.

No one will win a third world war – we will all lose. We would be far better off working with Russia as a partner to fight terrorism rather than work against it.

Dr. Michael Pravica
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Let’s hope the money raised really does help Grenfell Tower survivors

It is heartening to learn that £26,000 has been raised for the children affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. One wonders, though, as to the £20m raised by the public via various charities in the immediate aftermath of the fire and the £28m allocated by the Government in the recent Budget all, we are told, “for” the Grenfell Tower victims.

Hopefully all this money, plus interest earned, will go a long way in re-housing and providing long term care for those affected by the disaster.

Mike Dodds
London W11