Lionesses lose to Japan but beat the Guardian

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Theresa May described Sir Nicholas Winton as a “hero of the 20th century, Against all the odds he almost single-handedly rescued hundreds of children, mostly Jewish, from the Nazis” (Report, 2 July). I wonder what her response would be to someone who set about to organise transport for Christian and Shia families from Isis-controlled territories to Britain. I doubt if a few of them would even get to Calais.Margaret SquiresSt Andrews, Fife

• To see how listening to women really works to bring about social change (Society, 1 July) one only has to refer to the many years of work by Molly Melching, founder of Tostan in Senegal. Gaining the confidence of women, understanding then facilitating their needs brings huge benefits, including the eradication of FGM in many villages.Marj JawoBurton on Trent, Staffordshire

• Calls from Maryam don’t always go well (Letters, 2 July). She phoned me earlier in the week to say I had a letter under consideration. We were bathing my triplet grandsons at the time, and all hell was breaking loose in my bathroom. She came through as “number unknown” and I was rather brusque before putting the phone down, thinking it was a sales call. Thanks to her for immediately calling back and clarifying who she was and allowing me to apologise profusely.Ralph JonesRochester, Kent

• Congratulations to our “lionesses” on their magnificent performances on the football field – and on their victory against the gender reassignment programme of the Guardian style guide.Jemima Hadwin (sculptress)Guildford, Surrey

• Not as relieved, Lord Bragg (Letters, 2 July), as are many of us in Lancashire, that our local councillors have had the bottle to speak the truth to power by representing the interests of the community they were elected to serve.Austen LynchGarstang, Lancashire

• Let’s not forget this from Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Letters, 1 July): “They had proceeded thus gropingly two or three miles further when on a sudden Clare became conscious of some vast erection close in his front, rising sheer from the grass.” It is, of course, Stonehenge.Paul SteeplesLondon