Shame over claimants

both the BBC Panorama programme and Channel 4 featured the disgraceful treatment of disabled claimants on the same evening (Yorkshire Post, July 30).

Iain Duncan Smith would not be pleased. He did not step forward to do the interviews for the Ministry of Work and Pensions. Channel 4’s “secret filming” of an ATOS assessor trainer was very revealing. She described her job as “toxic” and made it clear she found anyone fit for work who had “one moving finger”. The ATOS system is both cruel and secretive to some of the disabled they put through the mill.

Iain Duncan Smith should watch videos of both of these programmes. Then the Minister, a self-professed Christian, should look at himself in the mirror and vow to become a much kinder Christian.

Golden age

From: Graham Branston, Rawdon, Leeds

Some readers may recall the film Those Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines. Well, in the here and now, we have those magnificent men and women in their boats, canoes and cycles.

How our Olympians have zoomed GB up the medal table and restored that golden gleam. A huge congratulations to all of them, especially those from God’s own county.

From: Brian Ainley, Graham Crescent, Scarborough

Before any of our athletes are rewarded with “honours”, I think they should learn the correct way to fly the Union Flag.

I was dismayed to see that even Bradley Wiggins draped it upside down over his shoulders.