Tender minds and media influence | Brief letters

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In all the agonising over whether we should follow Australia in restricting children’s access to social media (

Australian-style social media ban for under-16s ‘a retrograde step’, say UK charities, 29 November

) there seems to be no recognition that supposedly tender minds will still be exposed to the influence of traditional media. Readers who may recall the image of a

12-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg

reading the Financial Times should need no reminding of how pernicious this influence can be, now that the results are in.

John Kelly


Little Raveley,

Cambridgeshire

• What is the purpose of rehabilitation and “spent convictions” if Louise Haigh was forced to resign and forfeit a promising political future over a minor offence committed 10 years ago (

Louise Haigh ‘told to quit by No 10 over possible breach of ministerial code’, 29 November

)?

Dominic Shelmerdine


London

• Apparently we can tolerate a convicted criminal as president of the US but not the excellent Louise Haigh as transport secretary.

Keith Richards


London

• I read that “transport in English towns could be integrated by apps” (

Report, theguardian.com, 28 November

). It would be nice to have some transport to integrate.

Helen Ryan


Blandford Forum, Dorset

• I greatly enjoyed Ian Barrett’s observation about “unwoke research” (

Letters, 27 November

). How appropriate that it was written in Woking.

Tony Coghan


London

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