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Three hundred Foreign Office staff with consciences, and concerns about UK policy on Gaza that they raised in a letter to the foreign secretary, should not be told by their Whitehall superiors that “an honourable course” is to resign from the civil service (Report, 10 June). No. The honourable course for the government is to act on these informed concerns and on our complicity, so far, in Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Laura Conyngham
Crediton, Devon
• While I bemoan the fall in the number of children’s books featuring ethnic-minority main characters (Letters, 10 June), books featuring children of east Asian origin have been lacking for years, and still are. My 11-year-old granddaughter has mixed British/east Asian heritage, and I don’t think we’ve ever found books with children who look like her. The same applies to children’s birthday cards. A gap in the market that needs to be rectified, perhaps?
Barbara Thompson
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