Jesus wept
Sir: Sam Dunning’s brilliant exposure of the corrupting links between Jesus College, Cambridge and the Chinese Communist party (‘Centre of attention’, 5 February) raises the question of how the college can be rescued from its current leaders. Their virtue-signalling gestures (the Benin bronze, the Rustat memorial etc) have already prompted many of us alumni to delete Jesus from our wills. But this association with vile tyranny is altogether more serious. Perhaps an academic boycott might bring the Master and Fellowship to their senses. Certainly something must be done to save this ancient Christian foundation from its present role as an agent and support of manifest evil.
Francis Bown
London E3
Passing the bullet
Sir: Jeremy Clarke writes of injuries sustained but long ignored by veterans of the Great War (Low life, 5 February). I was a trainee doctor in London in the early 1960s and at that time it was still quite common to see these little old barrel-chested veterans of the trenches.
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