Time for Clegg to rethink on coalition

It's surprising that Nick Clegg should have "insisted the coalition remained strong" ( Miliband and Clegg call for tighter rules on media ownership , 18 July), when Cameron is now damaged goods and News International is shown to have been in effect a semi-attached subsidiary of the Conservative party. All this creates a new political context, in which the raison d'etre for Lib Dems to line up alongside the Conservatives is severely weakened. Is it not now right for the Lib Dems to reconsider their position? Robin Wendt Chester • While I agree with Dr Brennan ( Letters , 19 July) about Tony Blair's obsequious courting of the Murdochs, it was surely a case of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" until someone stopped that media juggernaut in its tracks. Sharman Finlay Ballyclare, Co Antrim • "It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it." Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear . Mike Bor London • An inquiry into the police and the media does not go far enough. The mistakes of recent years show that we need a royal commission to ask more fundamental questions about the sort of policing that our society needs. David Howard Church Stretton, Shropshire • Friday is the sixth anniversary of the bungled anti-terrorist operation that the resulted in the death of Jean Charles de Menezes. That operation's leader, Cressida Dick, who said she thought the Met had done nothing wrong, is to replace John Yates as head of anti-terrorist policing. Now that truly is a scandal. Mary Pimm and Nik Wood London • I've been telling students for the past 20 years that concentration of ownership in the media is a bad thing, but then who gives any credibility to a Mickey Mouse subject like media studies? Patrick Russell Cardinal Wiseman high school, Greenford, Middlesex • Isn't it high time Oxford University ended the disgrace of its Rupert Murdoch chair of language and communication? How about renaming it the Nick Davies chair of journalism ethics? Julian Le Vay Oxford • Just outside Chipping Norton there's a pub called The Greedy Goose. Know your market. Allan Jones Yardley Gobion, Northamptonshire