Seeking to impress, Dr Frank resorts to phrases such as “total entropy”, “slavishly chauvinistic”, and “hagiographical apologies” in an unconvincing criticism of Donald Trump (“No amount of adulation will make him ‘greatest’”, Letters, June 15-16).

US diplomat Bill Richardson was accused Thursday of a "personal attack" on Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi after an excoriating take down of the former darling of the global rights community as he resigned from a panel on the Rohingya crisis.