Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, is out in the cold

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Wednesday 15 February 2017 11:37 EST

Michael Flynn resigned less than a month after taking office over revelations he had spoken to a Russian diplomat about US sanctions before Donald Trump took office (Win McNamee/Getty)

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Seems to me there is only one response to Michael Flynn’s transgression that Donald Trump would think appropriate. Lock him up!

G Forward

Stirling

President Trump’s Twitter reaction to the resignation of Lt Gen Michael Flynn is to blame his own FBI and National Security Agency for leaking to newspapers.

Trump does not seem to realise that he is alienating very powerful forces. When the penny drops paranoia may follow, for example one can easily imagine the President becoming convinced he is being bugged by his own security services. Nixon’s White House may come to be seen as a beacon of calm and reason in comparison to what might be about to unfold.

John Gemmell

Birmingham

The will of the people is sovereign, but only when it suits Theresa May

On reading Jon Stone’s article (Trump means Trump, 15 February), I couldn’t help thinking about the hypocrisy of Theresa May and her colleagues. They continually lecture us about the importance of “the will of the people” when it comes to Brexit, no matter what format that may eventually take. The moment almost two million of the same people object to something she disagrees, compared with only 100,000 who support the Trump state visit it is dismissed out of hand.

So much for “the will of the people”.

Graham Fogelman

Nottingham

No end in sight

No one expects the Trump administration to halt the unrelenting violence and perpetual occupation, conflict and agonising pain in the occupied Palestinian territories. Israel remains bound to the incremental annexation of Arab lands, to the construction of illegal Jewish settlements, and to the absolute denial of Palestinian rights and statehood. It has also become clear that the crises in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya have dwarfed in their sheer humanitarian magnitude their Palestinian counterpart, making it more difficult to forge a comprehensive settlement to the Arab-Israeli imbroglio. Last but not least, Why should we rely on the US to solve our own problems? Only we Arabs and Muslims can heal our divisions, unite and navigate the treacherous path to peace and liberty.

Munjed Farid Al Qutob

London NW2

Another perspective

With the increase in reported hate crimes, many blame the success of the Brexit vote. Let’s assume they are right: we need to assess how such crime would have changed, had Remain won; haters of foreigners may have acted out their feelings all the more.

Peter Cave

London

A clear giveaway

Paul Nuttall, Ukip’s leader and candidate in the forthcoming Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election, had a website that previously claimed that he had lost “close personal friends” among Hillsborough’s 96 dead. On Monday he admitted: “I haven’t lost anyone who was a close personal friend.”

There was an obvious flaw in this fabrication that should have alerted people to the fact that it was untrue: the idea that Paul Nuttall has a “close personal friend”.

Sasha Simic