When barefoot PE leaves you cold | Brief letters
Re your article (Wim Hof breathing and cold-exposure method may have benefits, study finds, 13 March), my secondary school PE teacher once made our class run barefoot around the snow-covered playing field. As I recall, we did not feel better from doing this.
Polly Bird
Bedlington, Northumberland
The headline of your editorial on low-traffic neighbourhoods (11 March) invites us to “spread the word – these schemes work”. But it might be time to rebrand them. It would be easier to sell a “health improvement zone” or a “reduced child asthma neighbourhood” than a Ulez or an LTN – and harder to oppose it.
Harriet Ward
Emeritus professor, Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Loughborough University
Because they are morally bankrupt, the Conservatives will avoid becoming financially bankrupt (‘Nope, no way’: can the Tories afford to give Frank Hester’s money back?, 15 March).
Clifton Melvin
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
So Frank Hester’s statement was “racist and wrong”, according to No 10 (Report, 12 March). Can anybody tell me what sort of statement is “racist and right”?
Ray R Chalker
London
Re taxation (Letters, 14 March), I recall my father responding to a wealthy cousin who was grumbling about the size of his tax bill: “I just wish I was paying as much tax as you.”
Helen Hughes
Edinburgh
I was always told that tax is a ticket to a fair society.
Julie Myers
Ormskirk, Lancashire
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