It may well be open season for grouse shooting but I am surprised that you open your pages to the diatribe and character assassination by Terry Philpot (Letters, 15 August). To paint Jeremy Corbyn as a friend and supporter of terrorists is a ludicrous libel. He is certainly willing to enter into dialogue with others whose views he may not share but that is what democracy is all about – as indeed is Christianity.Frank Campbell, Southampton Terry Philpot thinks that Jeremy Corbyn is “soft on terrorism”. Someone put that question to Jeremy recently in Glasgow and this was his response. “There is no denying that some people I have had to sit down with, both Israeli and Palestinian and from many other areas, have held personal views which are anathema to me, abhorrent t