Bravo Tesco, the anti-vax boycott means I can shop with greater confidence

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A double vaccinated Santa features in Tesco’s Christmas advert (YouTube/Tesco)

I’m delighted to hear that the anti-vaxxers are boycotting Tesco because of its pro-jab Christmas advert message. This means that I can shop there with greater confidence.

Come on, Sainsburys, Aldi, Lidl et al. Do your bit and make shopping safer for everyone.

Patrick Cosgrove

Shropshire

Terrorism will be defeated through collaborative measures

I want to salute and pay homage to the gallantry, professionalism and selflessness of police, emergency services and healthcare workers and to the heroic driver who averted a full-blown disaster from happening in Liverpool on Sunday.

Like the coronavirus pandemic, terrorism cannot be defeated by a singular measure, security intervention or singling out one community among others.

On the contrary, it must be defeated through holistic, pluralistic and collaborative measures that marshal efforts from across all sectors of government and society.

Dr Munjed Farid Al Qutob

London

Starmer needs credible policies of his own

So, Labour want the inquiry into Boris Johnson and Jennifer Arcuri reopened and another probe to look into Jacob Rees-Mogg. Another MP on the Johnson payroll, Alan Mak, has been paid for legal work outside of his parliamentary remit too.

As clever as this may be on the part of Keir Starmer, he isn’t going to get Labour elected just on the basis of this. People recall similar scandals when his party was in power from 1997 to 2010 as well.

Starmer needs new and credible policies of his own, designed to appeal to middle England as well as the north, otherwise the Conservatives will just keep on winning and making gains further north through government schemes, HS2 and other infrastructure programmes.

It’s one thing for Labour to be six points clear in opinion polls now, but the election is still up to three years away.

Geoffrey Brooking

Havant

Be the change

I read Will Gore’s article with horror. I think the conclusion must be that when his children ask what he did to fight climate change, the answer must be nothing, nix, nada.

The time to change to an electric car is now. He clearly hasn’t even started to insulate his house and the time for that is long past. How does he think change is going to happen? We can’t wait for the Conservative government to save us, they’ll be too busy working out how to let their friends profit from the impending disaster.

We all have different financial situations and not everybody can afford to make the changes needed, but if a successful journalist (and evidently someone who understands there is a problem) can’t even manage to do the basics of reducing his carbon output,  the rest of the of the country can’t be expected to do much.

"Be the change you want to see in the world" has never seemed more appropriate.

Graham Handley

Dorset

Eco-sanctions for environmental backsliders

One wonders if the rulers of India and China are really not bothered about the welfare of their children and grandchildren.

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What happened on Saturday at Cop26 cuts the ground from under the feet of practically every other country that is aware of the need to end reliance on coal.

Every assistance must be given to developing countries that anticipate difficulties in implementing the  measures which are so obviously required. However, it may well be that we now need to look at the possibility of “eco-sanctions” to push environmental backsliders to take the crisis of the planet seriously.

Rev Andrew McLuskey

Ashford