Robert Jenrick’s heartlessness can’t be glossed over

It’s beginning to look as if the Tories may elect as their leader Robert Jenrick (Report, 5 September), a man who ordered the painting over of cartoon characters in a children’s immigration reception building as they were “too welcoming”. If anything sums up the performative cruelty of the last government, it must be that simple little fact. We should be reminded of it every day.Nigel GannLichfield District City of Sanctuary
If TV, radio and newspaper journalists can read, digest and report the findings of the Grenfell inquiry within 24 hours, why will it take the Metropolitan police 18 months to do the same (Justice for Grenfell deaths may not come this decade, warns former chief prosecutor, 5 September)?Mick BeebyBristol
Derren and Margy could both be happy if Derren embraced the magic bow (You be the judge: should my boyfriend double-knot his shoelaces?, 30 August). After you’ve made the second loop, you just pull that loop through again. Result is a secure bow that undoes with a single pull. Hardly any more effort than a normal bow. Judy SteeleRadford Semele, Warwickshire
What the hell was Gordon Brown doing commissioning a portrait of Margaret Thatcher in the first place (The lady’s not for returning – but where has No 10’s Thatcher portrait gone?, 30 August)?Ian Simmons Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex