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Turning the wheel slightly and easing off from the accelerator are not signs that Andrew Lansley will steer the NHS away from the cliff edge of privatisation (Report, 23 May). His plan must be stopped before we lose our NHS to market management. Of course, the true driver for this sorry state of affairs is the prime minister, who has overall responsibility for the actions of his cabinet colleagues. If Cameron and Lansley are able to turn the NHS into a full-blown insurance scheme, it will be a car crash.
Stuart Jeffery
Green Party health spokesperson
• Francis Fukuyama tells us "nothing good has happened [in Russia] since Putin came to power" (G2, 23 May). Really? Didn't Putin's government stop the killer inflation of Russia's dreadful 1990s, giving the country a measure of prosperity? "If they didn't have energy, they'd be a totally inconsequential country". Surely it's only Fukuyama's energy that saves him from being a totally inconsequential thinker.
Robin Milner-Gulland
University of Sussex
• How impressive to see that on the visit to the UK of the first black president of the US, Britain's finest were entertained in such style by Her Majesty (Report, 25 May). Such a shame, however, that apparently we had no black Britons fine enough to be invited?
Sharon Grant
Secretary, Bernie Grant Trust
• Anne Liddon (Letters, 25 May), asks: "How long before the US has the opportunity to elect a woman in her own right?" The good news is that the chance arrives next year. The bad news is it might be President Sarah Palin – unless Ms Liddon believes having a female president matters more than her politics.
D Cameron
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
• £81,100.01 raised for Unicef and Children in Crisis in one fell swoop (G2, 24 May)? Hats off to Princess Bea then, eh?
Irene Yates
Redditch, Worcestershire
• Has last year's Icelandic volcano taken out a superinjunction? Is that why no one mentions its name, not even in parliament?
Juliet Humphreys
Uxbridge, Middlesex
