Letters: Unwelcome acts

William Hague fears a dangerous power vacuum if president Ali Abdullah Saleh is ousted in Yemen.

Has British foreign policy finally recognised that hard-line leaders may be what some parts of the world require, that in any event it is not up to us to shape the world in our image and that our intervention rarely works as we would like anyway?

Or could it possibly be that our self-righteous principles are only applied when it suits us?

Stuart C Poole

Howdenhall Drive

Edinburgh

If there is one thing the racing fraternity should not do for the dictatorship currently suppressing its own people in Bahrain is to send a circus to entertain them.

The ordinary people of Bahrain deserve better from us and our sportsmen.

KJ Wilson

Middle Norton

Edinburgh