Kelvin MacKenzie and Ross Barkley | Return of the sparrows | Management speak | Kings killed in battle | Grandparents’ names | 35mm film canistersKelvin MacKenzie loses his job over racial slurs” (Report,10 May). Are we to infer that the nasty abuse of Ross Barkley would have been fine had his grandparents all been indigenous English or European? Is there no need to care about respecting other people and their feelings, so long as no racial or sexual orientation or devout elements lurk somewhere?
Peter Cave
London• I regularly have sparrows on the balcony of my seventh-floor Barbican flat (Patrick Barkham, or Notebook,9 May). They are from the colony which has lived in Fortune Street Park for several years. The sparrows dont procure on with the goldfinches which inhabit the estate’s wildlife garden. Alas all these birds and small mammals are prey to the resident peregrines. Who needs to live in Norfolk?
Joanna Rodgers
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Source: theguardian.com