Malcolm Freeth News Today

SIR – The Post Office scandal (Letters, January 13) has not just opened people’s eyes to what happened to others; it has also shown us what could happen to any innocent person in an age where an organisation’s reputation is protected at all costs.

SIR – I was sorry to read Charles Moore’s account (Notebook, March 4) of his friend’s nasty road accident in East Sussex, caused by a pothole.

Plus: will John Lewis survive?; rewriting the classics; remembering the Dambusters; and striking doctors

SIR – Your Leading Article (“Only bedrock reform can fix the NHS”, January 16) rightly concludes that the health service cannot survive in its current form.

SIR – If my experience is anything to go by, it is no surprise that accident and emergency care is on the brink.

SIR – Week after week, decade after decade, I read that the NHS needs “radical rethinking".

SIR – Boris Johnson was almost certainly the only person able to secure Brexit, the advantages of which he was extolling on Monday.

SIR – Although people are being encouraged to take a Covid test before meeting others, Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, has now admitted that there is a shortage of tests.

SIR – You report that housebound folk are not being vaccinated.

SIR – With all the leaks it was known that the Leeds HS2 leg was to be scrapped, but I remained hopeful until the last moment that the new proposals were not true.