The Guardian | Toilets | Breakup songs | Wolverhampton | CodewordLibby Ruffle asks (Letters, 16 March) “does the Guardian carry a responsibility for mediation and reconciliation?” No, it doesn’t. It is a vehicle for reporting news and facilitating views and comment on that news. I read the Guardian for honest and accurate reportage but also to be stimulated, inspired, amused, angered and challenged by a range of overviews on that news. I am not interested in commentary that has been “mediated” so as not to frighten the horses. Roz TreadwaySheringham, Norfolk• Correspondence concerning “necessaries”, “netties” etc (Letters, passim) reminds me of a cleric I knew who, when required, would declare that he needed to go “now even unto Bethlehem”; presumably to “see this thing which is come to pass.”Hugh SimpsonBradford Continue readingreadfullarticle
