SIR – I’m ashamed of my country – not the beautiful places – but the nasty, brutal British state dragging Julian Assange to jail like you’d see in the dictatorships they’re quick to call out.

The ‘elites’ ain’t got us the name of perfidious Albion for nothing!

Rape allegations are serious and he should go to Sweden.

Wikileaks exposed murderous wars. Check out the helicopter’s chain gun doing its thing, brutalised pilots laughing as human beings are torn apart.

Unlike the lackeys at the BBC, a journalist’s vital role is to expose the powerful to protect us.

Not all autocue echoing our politicians and careerist supine ‘experts’.

Money talks - does it? Try buying the truth that centuries of brave folk that make a stand have given us.

Its brilliance unleashed, as when our relatives pulled together to smash fascism, its unstoppable, furious ways reduced the corrupt. And that’s what WikiLeaks did.

Its light exposing those who seek power over us. Pass it on, like Julian has.

David Griffiths

Worcester