• JACQUELINE Castles refers to some possible “benefit from the available funds” in her letter, (Benefits of Sackler cash, June 11).

The Sacklers attempted to insinuate themselves into every bloated, preening, art institution in the capital.

Consider South Kensington alone. The Sacklers have funded, in the ultra-posh “Royal Borough”, the V&A (the huge and very expensive Sackler Courtyard), the Serpentine (the vast Sackler Serpentine Gallery), and the Royal College of Art.

What could be more fraudulent than the Sackler Courtyard at the V&A? Its apparent pristine modernity salutes you as you enter from Exhibition Road.

But all I can witness in this pretty, false, and accursed place is shadows and spectres. The corpses from the Sackler opioid plague are everywhere my numbed heart may look.

Nan Goldin, the crusading LGBT photographer, covered, with obvious humanity and intimacy the AIDS epidemic back in the 1980s and 1990s.

Now she is campaigning about the Sackler opioid menace, which has devastated America’s projects – slum estates.

Painters and sculptors here have done nothing to resist the Sacklers. The soul of London art is being sold to the devil.

It was a David Cohen investigation in The Evening Standard that appears alone to have stopped the Sackler juggernaut in London.

He revealed the web of ugly tax evasion, decrepit research, and malign corporate greed that are at the centre of the Sackler nightmare. He has shown the need for brave and independent journalism. There is never enough of this.

ZEKRIA IBRAHIMI
Mackenzie Close, W12