It is the tech giants who have played the biggest role in the riots

It would be naive to believe that the current unrest was provoked solely by the murder of three young girls. The planned, systematic nature of rioting targeting vulnerable communities strongly suggests a degree of planning, several weeks in the making.

Regardless of events in Southport, this conspiracy to test the mettle of the new government and perpetrate violence during a long hot summer was inevitable. The action was, in all likelihood, pre-planned – the better to organise and facilitate events using social media.

Sadly, the tech giants have enabled violent assembly and need to be bought to book. Profiting from the misery of others has no place within liberal democracies. Is it time to pull the plug on X and its ilk?

David Smith

Taunton

I assume that the irony would be lost on the pasty marauding mob that the flag of Saint George, which they carry and drape themselves in, so dearly commemorates a semi-mythical Turkish/Greek/Palestinian Roman soldier, venerated in Christian and Muslim tradition, who, had he not been executed for his religious beliefs, might be imagined to have sought refuge in a safer country.

As for the dragon bit…

Rick Biddulph

Surrey

Might the accommodation the government has already paid for in Rwanda be used for those convicted of the worst offences during the recent riots?

It would simultaneously provide some return from an otherwise wasted UK investment, supplement the current shortage of prison places, give the guilty miscreants experience of being housed as a migrant in a foreign country and act as a deterrent to would-be offenders.

David Rhodes

Nottingham

Americans deserve far better than the usual callous conservative or neo-faux liberal in the White House.

Frankly, it’s no