• DIFFICULT not to read Andrew Feinstein’s election agent’s offer us examples of “playbook propaganda”, (A lesson in propaganda, August 8, by Robert West) without some admiration for the enduring guile that typified so much of their campaign.

But maybe this latest effort to discredit Martin Plaut’s citing the divisiveness wrought by Feinstein and his fellow populist far-left travellers, just won’t wash with readers.

The reports of offensive flyposting, anti-Sir Keir Starmer graffiti and intimidating conduct around polling stations, symptomatic of their “joyful” campaigning, were not imaginary. These were seen and experienced by many of us.

As a professor of psychology, West will no doubt be familiar with the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance. But perhaps he needs to be reminded that the inconvenient truths of lived experience have a long history of undermining even the most assertive of ideologues.

Anyway, like it or not, our MP is now PM so time to get beyond the ad hominem, recognise shared progressive objectives (as exemplified on the streets of Walthamstow last week) and focus on how the “whats” we have in common, can be achieved.

JEF SMITH, NW5