SIR - The demands by Tory MP Robert Halfon after the tragic death of a child in Norfolk encapsulates the ludicrous reactionary nature of British politicians to any headline which has left them incapable of dealing with more complex issues such as post-Brexit Britain. One moment they're demanding cannabis oil for kids on the NHS, the next the banning of recreational inflatables!

Bouncy castles have been around decades. To decide they are now any more dangerous than they have been in their six decades of public enjoyment is nannyism at its worst.

Back in the early 1960s, there were attempts to ban pogo sticks with much the same justifications today's heath and safety cult cottonwools kids. However Enoch Powell, with two young daughters of his own, knew acceptable risk has long been the price for fun, and so in his capacity as Health Minister demonstrated the correct use of the pogo stick to a bemused media on January 23, 1962 in Belgravia (captured for posterity in a photograph), bouncing the killjoys into touch.

Mark Boyle, Linn Park Gardens, Johnstone, Renfrewshire