I can only assume that none of the rightwing commentators who blame the economic crisis on lockdown lost anyone who was near and dear to them during the pandemic (Reheating old grievances about lockdown won’t keep pensioners warm this winter, 23 August). Sadly, it reminds me of graffiti on a road sign in south Warwickshire over 50 years ago: “Only the selfish vote Tory.”
Bob Forster
Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire
• It’s no surprise that the big grain firms are profiting from people’s hunger (Record profits for grain firms amid food crisis prompt calls for windfall tax, 23 August). I’m no Marxist, but Karl Marx put it well: “Capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”
Sue Ward
Newcastle upon Tyne
