Home secretary Suella Braverman

• REGARDING the peculiar immigration comments of home secretary Suella Braverman, let Thomas Carlyle in Sartor Resartus (1831) respond: “The question returns. How could a person occasionally of keen insight, not without keen sense of propriety, who had real thoughts to communicate, resolve to emit them in a shape bordering so closely on the absurd?

“…Our conjecture has sometimes been that perhaps Necessity as well as Choice was concerned in it.”

MIKE BOR
St George’s Fields, W2