World news + Letters

Brief letters: Tsar crossed | Gaza peace deal | Scatter cushions | Ides of March | Out for the count

Letters: Responding to an article by Jonathan Freedland, Michael Bowers says we are all paying the price for US delusions, Peter Riddle calls for the UK to align with its European neighbours and Francis Bown sees Donald Trump’s Gnostic tendencies

Brief letters: Sextortion criminals | Manchester United v Peterborough | Worst jobs | Goods from Canada, Greenland and Mexico

Letters: Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis responds to an article that said the festival could be seen as an example of Jewish zealotry

Letters: In response to an article about a CIA operation, Carl Gardner on tense days travelling to Prague, and David Parker on his father posting letters inserted into the Guardian

Letters: Trump has the classic authoritarian personality – not the same as being authoritarian, writes Mary Wilkinson, plus, letters by Tom Brown, Jim Hatley, Sally Burch and Alison Routh

Letters: Keith Flett is encouraged by Die Linke’s popularity among younger voters. David Felton says trying to outdo the Tories and Reform UK is a mistake

Letter: The Kantamanto market fire highlighted to Miah Redmond that the country’s future should not be built on the waste of others, but on its own industries