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SIR – Labour’s desire to have the NHS working seven days per week is of course admirable (“Operations and scans at weekend under Labour plan for 24-7 NHS”, report, December 18). Sadly, maintaining the use of expensive assets such as operating theatres, radiology and pathology services 24 hours a day is wholly unrealistic given the large number of human beings required to run the organisation. When I operate, whether it be a major joint reconstruction or a simpler procedure, there are often seven

SIR – Pessimism, fatigue, historical ignorance, and an immoral attempt to appease an aggressor for whom the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the war crime of illegally transferring nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children: these are what threaten to bring about the end of the international liberal order. The 143 countries across all continents that voted for the UN General Assembly Resolution ES-11/4, which declared the annexation of parts of Ukraine by Russia illegal, clear

SIR – The Rwanda Bill is nothing more than an expensive confidence trick (Letters, December 13). Immigration lawyers will exploit its loopholes and its deterrent effect will be negligible.

SIR – As an Israeli who moved from Britain, I want to share my view of the current situation here.

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.