Miner will have to do things by the book after ditching plan to pay bosses millions in bonuses after Teck deal

• Anglo American drops plan to pay bosses millions in bonuses

Shareholder rebellions over executive pay aren’t what the used to be. In the past 18 months, bumper incentive arrangements for the bosses have been approved at AstraZeneca , the London Stock Exchange Group and Smith & Nephew . All those companies have managed to argue successfully that, since the bulk of their revenues are made on the other side of the Atlantic, the executives should be paid like Americans.

Perhaps it was such favourable votes (for the executives) that persuaded the remuneration committee of FTSE 100 miner Anglo American that its cheeky “resolution 2” within the proposed $50bn all-share merger with the Canadian group Teck Resources wouldn’t cause a fuss.

Miner will have to do things by the book after ditching plan to pay bosses millions in bonuses after Teck deal

• Anglo American drops plan to pay bosses millions in bonuses

Shareholder rebellions over executive pay aren’t what the used to be. In the past 18 months, bumper incentive arrangements for the bosses have been approved at AstraZeneca , the London Stock Exchange Group and Smith & Nephew . All those companies have managed to argue successfully that, since the bulk of their revenues are made on the other side of the Atlantic, the executives should be paid like Americans.

Perhaps it was such favourable votes (for the executives) that persuaded the remuneration committee of FTSE 100 miner Anglo American that its cheeky “resolution 2” within the proposed $50bn all-share merger with the Canadian group Teck Resources wouldn’t cause a fuss.

Miner will have to do things by the book after ditching plan to pay bosses millions in bonuses after Teck deal

• Anglo American drops plan to pay bosses millions in bonuses

Shareholder rebellions over executive pay aren’t what the used to be. In the past 18 months, bumper incentive arrangements for the bosses have been approved at AstraZeneca , the London Stock Exchange Group and Smith & Nephew . All those companies have managed to argue successfully that, since the bulk of their revenues are made on the other side of the Atlantic, the executives should be paid like Americans.

Perhaps it was such favourable votes (for the executives) that persuaded the remuneration committee of FTSE 100 miner Anglo American that its cheeky “resolution 2” within the proposed $50bn all-share merger with the Canadian group Teck Resources wouldn’t cause a fuss.

Sagal Hassan and Dr Lisa Williams respond to the news that Wes Streeting has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’

As a psychotherapist with child and adolescent mental health services, I welcome Wes Streeting’s change of heart on his comments about the “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions, ADHD and autism ( I realise now that my view on mental health overdiagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence, 4 December ). Political point-scoring has no place in public health.

By setting up this taskforce, Streeting acknowledges the complexity of the picture and that conversations must be led by research, where science and suffering can be held together.

Sagal Hassan and Dr Lisa Williams respond to the news that Wes Streeting has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’

As a psychotherapist with child and adolescent mental health services, I welcome Wes Streeting’s change of heart on his comments about the “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions, ADHD and autism ( I realise now that my view on mental health overdiagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence, 4 December ). Political point-scoring has no place in public health.

By setting up this taskforce, Streeting acknowledges the complexity of the picture and that conversations must be led by research, where science and suffering can be held together.

Sagal Hassan and Dr Lisa Williams respond to the news that Wes Streeting has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’

As a psychotherapist with child and adolescent mental health services, I welcome Wes Streeting’s change of heart on his comments about the “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions, ADHD and autism ( I realise now that my view on mental health overdiagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence, 4 December ). Political point-scoring has no place in public health.

By setting up this taskforce, Streeting acknowledges the complexity of the picture and that conversations must be led by research, where science and suffering can be held together.

Readers respond after another former Dulwich college pupil spoke out with allegations of racist behaviour by the Reform UK leader

Regarding Nigel Farage’s difficulty believing that people can remember schoolboy “banter” of more than four decades ago ( Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’, 5 December ), perhaps I can helpfully direct him to an African proverb: “The axe forgets, the tree never does.” This succinctly summarises the disparity in recollections of interactions between victims and perpetrators.
Juliet Winstone
Dorking, Surrey

• “Farage has suggested that it is simply inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of over four decades ago,” says Yinka Bankole in your article. Such events that hurt children or young people, whether words or actions, are remembered for the whole of a lifetime. I remember a similarly unpleasant event that happened to me at the age of 13 on 14 February 1964. I could go to the exact spot. That was more than six decades ago, not four.
Name and address supplied

Readers respond after another former Dulwich college pupil spoke out with allegations of racist behaviour by the Reform UK leader

Regarding Nigel Farage’s difficulty believing that people can remember schoolboy “banter” of more than four decades ago ( Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’, 5 December ), perhaps I can helpfully direct him to an African proverb: “The axe forgets, the tree never does.” This succinctly summarises the disparity in recollections of interactions between victims and perpetrators.
Juliet Winstone
Dorking, Surrey

• “Farage has suggested that it is simply inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of over four decades ago,” says Yinka Bankole in your article. Such events that hurt children or young people, whether words or actions, are remembered for the whole of a lifetime. I remember a similarly unpleasant event that happened to me at the age of 13 on 14 February 1964. I could go to the exact spot. That was more than six decades ago, not four.
Name and address supplied

Readers respond after another former Dulwich college pupil spoke out with allegations of racist behaviour by the Reform UK leader

Regarding Nigel Farage’s difficulty believing that people can remember schoolboy “banter” of more than four decades ago ( Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’, 5 December ), perhaps I can helpfully direct him to an African proverb: “The axe forgets, the tree never does.” This succinctly summarises the disparity in recollections of interactions between victims and perpetrators.
Juliet Winstone
Dorking, Surrey

• “Farage has suggested that it is simply inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of over four decades ago,” says Yinka Bankole in your article. Such events that hurt children or young people, whether words or actions, are remembered for the whole of a lifetime. I remember a similarly unpleasant event that happened to me at the age of 13 on 14 February 1964. I could go to the exact spot. That was more than six decades ago, not four.
Name and address supplied