Suella supporters should be ashamed

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The home secretary and all those supporting her should be ashamed of themselves for actively rabble-rousing (Victoria Jones/PA Wire)

Who on earth is surprised that the far-right thugs who claimed they were in Whitehall on Armistice Day to defend statues (that did not need protecting) ended up fighting with the police?

The rhetoric around countering another march, labelled by Suella Braverman as a hate march, is not only mendacious and insulting, but factually incorrect. The peace attendees started over two miles away on Park Lane and never went near the Cenotaph. The home secretary and all those supporting her should be ashamed of themselves for actively rabble-rousing the dregs of our country!

Robert Boston

Kent

Braverman is a scapegoat – violence at the protests was inevitable

Does anyone really believe that if Suella Braverman had kept her thoughts to herself and not publicly taunted the police with her “right-wing bias” drivel, the hideous rent-a-mob would not have turned up in London to counter the ceasefire march?

It was an inevitable byproduct of the peace march, and while their right to peacefully protest was successfully supported by the police, there is no doubt that many (including me) thought their timing was inappropriate and insensitive.

Braverman’s a nice easy target to blame, but getting rid of her won’t change the attitudes of the 90-odd far-right thugs arrested for disorder in the City or the attitudes of people who provocatively carry bloodied dolls in shrouds to anti-war marches on Armistice Day.

Steve Mackinder

Denver

Farage got off easy

In light of the comments made in WhatsApp and email messages by senior staff in Boris Johnson’s government, revealed in evidence to the Covid inquiry, I think Nigel Farage got off lightly in being called a “crackpot”, “sketchy” and “a fool” by staff at NatWest Bank.

I suggest he stops his crusade against the bank before he finds out what people really think of him.

Helen Bore

Scarborough

AI music can’t compete with the real thing

As a lifelong Kate Bush fan, I was gutted that her world record for time between number-one singles has been pipped by The Beatles with an engineered, rather poor facsimile of a record.

It feels genuinely disappointing that an artificial attempt has so easily made it to number one. Whereas hers was a genuine phenomenon, this feels like a crass marketing ploy.

Laura Dawson

Harpenden