Liz Truss has done us at least one favour

Thank you Sean O’Grady for your coruscating piece on the abysmal Jacob Rees-Mogg. He might pose as a gentleman, but Rees-Mogg has finally been exposed for what he is.

He and Truss tried to impose their idea of Brexit on us, and it was an ugly vision. It struck me that they acted as if the political reforms of the 1830s had never happened. They were governing for the top few per cent. Maybe, given his soubriquet “minister for the 18th century”, this was not surprising.

Truss has partly done us a favour – this wing of the party must now be discredited and in particular, the ex-secretary of state for business.

Jacob Rees-Mogg was a poisonous influence in the commons, and I fervently hope he loses his seat at the next election.

Lynn Brymer

Kent

Whenever I have complained to someone running a shop about permanently open doors wasting energy, I assumed it was due to his or her thoughtlessness or ignorance, but I was told it was a rule from higher (remote) management. 

One might expect such people to be more aware of costs, but seemingly not.

Regulation might help, but could have unintended consequences if clumsily implemented. However, an awareness campaign does seem warranted – not just so shop managers would know better, but also to encourage the public to see open doors as undesirable behaviour, to be considered when deciding whether to patronise a shop. 

That would offset any cynical calculation that an open door gains more revenue through increased footfall than it loses through wasted energy.

John Harrison

Wokingham

What a year so far – and not in a good way.  And still, it continues.

Putin is continuing to prove he is the (desperate) scum of the Earth in his deliberate targeting of civilian power and water infrastructure. I’m no legal expert, but isn’t that alone a whole set of war crimes?

And Sunak proves he is, er, a braver man than I in appointing Suella Braverman again as home secretary (in charge of things like MI5, I believe, after leaking an official email via her private account, if I read that right).  And now sacked Tory chair Jake Berry accuses her of multiple breaches of the ministerial code. Maybe six days or so is ample punishment before reinstatement?

Roll on 2023, if only it looked like being any better.  How do I volunteer for Musk’s first Mars mission?

Ian Henderson

Norwich

Green lobbyists and wildlife protection groups are congratulating Rishi Sunak for reinstating the ban on fracking, saying it is a sign of protecting the environment. Nothing could be further from the truth.

He has said that the ban is in place until it can be scientifically proven that fracking will not cause earthquakes. His only reason is to appease the nimbys in marginal seats.

G Forward

Stirling

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I’m no supporter of the Conservative Party, and believe that democracy requires that the general election should be very soon. But I was consoling myself with the thought that the latest PM must at least be an improvement on the previous two.

Then came the news that the anti-immigrant Suella Braverman was restored to the Home Office. Clearly, that particular job was the price she demanded for her cooperation in forging unity for the party.

So we are reminded, yet again, that for the Tories, morality comes a very poor second to party.

Susan Alexander

South Gloucestershire