Peter Amey News Today

SIR – Surely the purpose of the Covid Inquiry (Leading Article, December 8) should be to establish how and where the virus started; how well Britain responded to it; and, relative to other nations, the mistakes made and how to do better next time. What we actually hear is a load of deeply personalised questioning, with little apparent purpose beyond blaming and condemning individual people – none of them medical, which is rather puzzling.

SIR – Conservative MPs should remember that they were elected to serve their constituencies, and should do so to the best of their abilities.

SIR – Would anyone leave a CEO or chairman in charge of a company for three months after they had been forced to resign?

SIR – The hard work, dedication, imagination and superb logistical skill of those who organised the Platinum Party at the Palace contrast greatly with the idleness and inefficiency of the people who run our lives.

People queuing at an NHS pop-up vaccination centre at Sefton Park in Liverpool Credit: Peter Byrne /PA SIR – In all my medical career (and probably since Edward Jenner introduced vaccination) I have never come across a vaccine being launched where the message seems to be: “Have the vaccine but don’t trust it.” The whole purpose of a vaccine is protection, or at least a very attenuated form of the illness. If the Government carries on with this madness there will never be a return to nor...

15 March 2021 • 12:02am A well-wisher lays a bunch of flowers to honour Sarah Everard before the vigil at Clapham Common on Saturday night Credit: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP SIR – Two wrongs do not make a right. The vigil for Sarah Everard at Clapham Common should not have taken place when Covid-19 is still rampant. However, the police response, which included tackling women to the ground and physically overpowering them, was equally wrong. The police were doing exactly what the women were prot...