Letters: The absurd spectacle of yet another carbon-guzzling climate summit
SIR – Yet another useless Cop exercise is under way (Leading Article, December 1), this one even more climate-busting than the others.
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SIR – Yet another useless Cop exercise is under way (Leading Article, December 1), this one even more climate-busting than the others.
SIR – As I read your report on Boris Johnson’s plea for Britain not to give up on green energy, I checked the live grid data.
SIR – With the announcement of the possibility of A-road speed limits of 60mph being reduced to 20mph in Surrey (report, August 8), and other counties likely to follow, it is only right that the British public is made aware of the intentions of both the Government and local authorities in reducing, and eventually phasing out, our access to personal transport by pricing people out of cars and by making driving such a huge inconvenience that we simply give up.
Dressing windows on Oxford Street in London before shops reopen on April 12 Credit: Yui Mok/PA SIR – In Britain, 79 people out of the 20 million given the AstraZeneca vaccine developed thrombosis (in some cases, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis) – a rate of four in a million. By comparison, thrombosis can develop while taking the contraceptive pill at a rate of one to five women in 10,000 per year. Women who are pregnant or who have just given birth develop thromboses at a rate of one to two per 1,000. Out of a population of more than 21 million men and women between the ages of 20 an...