Keir Starmer: the super sub Fifa needs

Calls for Gianni Infantino to resign as president of Fifa (Editorial, 7 August) raise the question of who is available and suitable to replace him. This calls for a figure who is passionate about football, has international stature with a network of major political players, and a reputation for decency and integrity. Step forward Sir Keir Starmer.

David Cronin

Stockport, Greater Manchester

As my beautiful wife’s final wish to have a Viking-style burial aboard a flaming boat has been denied permission by the Canal and Rivers Trust, I am now looking at a range of humanist celebrations of life (Letters, 5 August) which will allow myself and our little dogs to howl our way through a collection of Neil Young’s Harvest LP and Nick Cave’s Into Your Arms to give thanks for her life.

Ian Grieve

Gordon Bennett, Llangollen canal

Re your report (Leicester Square, please guv’: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets ‘later this summer’, 5 August), with just a simple “Follow that cab”, the mischievous could create an endless loop, and a mega traffic jam as the AI overrides common sense.

Hannah Kaitlin-Boyer

Mirfield, West Yorkshire

Shareen Campbell raises a valid point about reminding Clacton voters what happened last time a comedian was elected (Letters, 5 August). But, which of the two main candidates is she referring to?

Pete Lavender

Woodthorpe, Nottinghamshire

I lean to support Simon Jenkins’s defence of our birthright (I stand to defend vertical drinking. Is a pub that doesn’t allow it a real pub at all?, 7 August). Hic.

Mark Westwood

Edinburgh

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