Shamima Begum is a blot on Sajid Javid’s copybook | Brief letters

2026-01-29 - 17:51

Citizenship | Apostrophes | Duvets | World Cup | Going Trumpless Reading your interview with Sajid Javid, with its account of juvenile theft from slot machines, the beatings he received from his father (which Javid himself now recognises as abuse) and the official leniency that he says changed his life, it’s hard to believe that this is the man who, on spurious national security grounds, took away Shamima Begum’s British citizenship for choices she made, or pressures she was put under, as a child. Mark de Brunner Burn Bridge, North Yorkshire • Re Adrian Chiles’s item (Is the wayward apostrophe in WALE’S LARGEST VAPE SHOP a sign of the times?, 29 January), while on holiday in Northumberland last year I visited a delightful cafe that sold various local crafts including handmade “Christma’s card’s”. Jane Marsh London Continue reading...