Thank you so much for publishing Michael Rosen’s article on the Covid inquiry (‘Who were you to decide that our innings was over?’ Michael Rosen’s Covid inquiry poem, 24 November). It expresses so accurately the contempt that I feel for those in charge of the government in the first phase of Covid. Having myself spent more than 70 days in intensive care in 2020 and, as a retired university professor, being someone whom Boris Johnson would no doubt have considered to have “had a good innings”, I am eternally grateful that the doctors and nurses who cared for me took the opposite view – that my life was worth saving.
I hope that the four generations of students whom I have had the privilege of introducing to my area of research since my recovery would endorse that view.
Peter Johnstone
Emeritus professor, University of Cambridge
• In a better world than this one, Boris Johnson (and Rishi Sunak) would be required to read and reply to Michael Rosen’s heartfelt article on their actions during the pandemic.
Roger Downie
Glasgow
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