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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