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SIR – The NHS Test and Trace debacle (report, October 27) encapsulates everything that is wrong with big government.

SIR – After about five minutes of Boris Johnson’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, it became clear that this was an absolute tour de force.

SIR – After 20 years out of power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have shown themselves well enough equipped to wage a successful military campaign.

30 June 2021 • 12:02am Year 11 students of the BBG Academy in West Yorkshire prepare for their prize giving ceremony and graduation Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images SIR – What threat to society does a child with asymptomatic Covid pose when everyone deemed vulnerable has had two vaccines and most other people have had at least one? We were told that children’s education was a priority. The overzealous enforcement of 
self-isolation (report, June 29) 
suggests otherwise. Kevin ...

Xenia Broking to Acquire UK-Based Credit Insurance Alliance (Brokers) April 14, 2021 Xenia Broking Group, the London-based credit insurance and surety specialist, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Credit Insurance Alliance (Brokers) Ltd. (CIA). An independent trade credit insurance broker based in the West Midlands, England, CIA specializes in placing trade credit insurance that protects businesses against insolvency or default of their UK...

Matt Hancock outside the Epsom Downs Racecourse vaccination centre Credit: reuters SIR – Matt Hancock says he hopes that, by the end of the year, Covid-19 will be a disease that Britain can “live with, like we do flu”. I am afraid that is not good enough, without the prospect of a much earlier end to lockdown. Vaccination numbers are rising rapidly, but so are those for hospital waiting lists. Cases of mental illness, domestic violence and unemployment are also going up. The Government mu...

Credit: peter byrne/pa SIR – My 94-year-old mother is in a nursing home in Cheshire. Up until Christmas, the matron and staff had done a wonderful job of protecting the residents. However, currently, the staff are exhausted and feel abandoned because many residents and staff have tested positive for Covid and there have been a number of deaths. Since Christmas, the matron and relatives of residents have been contacting relevant people, including the local MP, trying to obtain a batch of vacc...