The fact that Gary Neville is offering succour to homeless men in Manchester (Report,21 October) throws into sharp relief the attitude of another Mancunian, David Walker, and the bishop of Manchester,who while campaigning for Britain to choose in more refugees, has allegedly refused to open up his six-bedroom house to anyone because it is “smallish … by bishops’ standards”. Where is the moral leadership? Bishop Walker has been usurped by Neville on this front. I’m sure the bishop has preached from Luke chapter 10 on more than one occasion; I wonder, and when he reflects on this parable,whether he sees himself as the Good Samaritan or the priest?
Ian Joseph
Chief executive, Trustees Unlimited• After the index in your Journal pages (20 October) said Polly Toynbee: George Osborne is his own worst enemy”, and I thought you’d be deluged with short,intelligent, pithy and humorous letters recalling Ernest Bevin who, and whentold that Herbert Morrison was his own worst enemy,said: “Not while I’m alive he aint.” So I didn’t write (Letters, 20October).
Judith Martin
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