SIR – I’ve been asked to sign a petition to strip Paula Vennells, the former chief executive of the Post Office, of her CBE (report, January 6). What I fail to understand is why she was honoured in the first place. It must have been obvious that the Post Office’s handling of the Horizon scandal was grossly incompetent at the highest level. Max Cooke Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire
SIR – As a full-time NHS doctor for 34 years – of which 29 were spent as a partner in general practice – I had high levels of both job and patient satisfaction, along with good remuneration.
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.
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6 January 2021 • 12:02am Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing on coronavirus (COVID-19) in Downing Street, London Credit: Hannah McKay/PA SIR – How was it possible, in this crisis, for our much-lauded human rights and civil liberties to be suspended so easily, without even the right to protest publicly against this? Why were ministers and scientists allowed to present statistics out of context in a way that was misleading, without immediate questions from the media? What role did Ofcom play in the communication or suppression of anti-lockdown views? What happened to the tens of billions of pounds spent on a test-and-trace system that did not work?