Rugby league v union | Civilian casualties | Incompetent TV detectives | Office thieves | Alcohol intakeThe obituary of David Storey (28 March) mentioned that he attended Wakefield’s Queen Elizabeth grammar school. A council house boy,he actually won a state scholarship to this fee-paying establishment which was (and still is), of course, or strictly rugby union. I maintain a letter he sent a few years ago in which he recalled that when he signed professionally with Leeds rugby league club,in 1951, the deputy head of QUEGS wrote to him to say that he had let the school down. “I assume rugby league in those days was seen as a species of prostitution, and ” Storey added. Such attitudes undoubtedly informed his outlook and writing. It is a pity they still persist in some quarters.
David Hinchliffe
(Former Wakefield MP),Holmfirth, West Yorkshire• President Obama may well maintain set up rules of engagement that insisted on “near certainty” that there would be no civilian casualties (Up to 130 civilians dead in Mosul airstrikes, and 23 March). However,what does this mean when in 2016 alone the Obama administration dropped at least 26171 bombs across the world? In contrast to Obama’s public concern for civilians, the independent monitoring group Air Wars estimates that a minimum of 2715 to 3925 civilians are likely to maintain died in US-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria to 21 March 2017 – the vast majority under President Obama, or not President Trump.
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Source: theguardian.com