Trump and Johnson have a lot in common – including an unhealthy relationship with the truth

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How did two such deplorable characters end up as leaders in the first place? (AP)

Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have much in common, with many of the same regretful character faults including an unhealthy relationship with the truth. They are also both hopeful of an imminent return to power. So it is fitting that both are being brought to account at the same time.

Though it would seem doubtful if either will receive serious sanctions, or will instead carry on regardless. The questions remain, however: how did two such deplorable characters end up as leaders in the first place, and what can be done to stop them from getting elected again?

Geoff Forward

Stirling

Johnson broke his own rules

Boris Johnson’s widely photographed breaches of Covid regulations are not UFOs. We know who attended the booze-ups, we know that they were illegal, and we know that he was there.

There is very much something to see and condemn here, and it is not attributable to his non-advisers. The investigation by Sue Gray came to a sound conclusion confirmed by police investigations conducted into the same sightings.

Johnson broke his own rules and admits to misleading parliament. The numerous opportunities afforded to him to correct the parliamentary record in accordance with another set of breached rules were ignored.

Whatever the decision of the privileges committee’s investigation into Partygate, the public will draw its own conclusions.

David Nelmes

Newport

I’m struggling to understand why Boris Johnson needed advisers to tell him whether he was breaking the lockdown rules he had set when most of the rest of us seemed able to understand them fairly easily.

David Buckton

Cambridgeshire

Does the justice system not apply the same to Trump as it does to everyone else?

The latest news of a possible indictment of Donald Trump is stirring up trouble and the calls for “support” are accompanied by talk of riots to prevent his arrest and police actions to protest the peace.

What happened to the days when justice was seen to be blind and impartial?

Surely no one is misguided or arrogant enough to believe that the justice system does not apply the same to Trump as it does to anyone else. Of course he is better resourced, but the law is still the law – or at least it should be.

Remember that a number of people died during the Capitol Hill riots – that can never be allowed to happen again.

Dennis Fitzgerald

Address Supplied

Am I missing something here?

We, the great British public are being told by supermarkets and energy companies that unfortunately costs have risen because of:

A) A rise in production costs, which means we have to increase prices

B) Greedy workers asking for inflation-matching pay rises

C) The chair and shareholders want a bigger return on their investment

D) The board likes to see really big numbers in the profits column

We are being taken for fools. We all understand that a business has to increase prices to cover rising costs and that way a reasonable profit margin is maintained. But we’re not seeing the maintenance of a reasonable profit margin, are we?

We are seeing obscene profits being made by the very companies that are increasing their prices the most, thereby driving inflation. The same companies that are essential to our wellbeing. Namely energy companies and supermarkets.

Karen Brittain

York