Have others noted that if the £37bn that the government has committed to the outsourced test-and-trace scheme is spent over the planned two-year period, it will cost a little over £350m a week? Worth putting that on the side of a bus.
William Wallace
Liberal Democrat, House of Lords
• The irony of there being £2m for new art commissions depicting conflict (Imperial War Museums behind £2m project for new art on conflicts, 11 March) would not be lost on the Peace Museum in Bradford, where such a sum would enable a transformation in the creation and interpretation of peace art.
Peter Nias
Bradford
• For some months now I’ve been developing my own temperature scale, based on the number of people I spot on my morning walk to buy the paper. The formula works by deducting the total number of bobble hat wearers I see from the number of people wearing shorts (Letters, 11 March). It’s a good indication of the coming spring. A few weeks ago it was down to -13, but it has been climbing since then. Often people cancel themselves out of the equation by wearing both.
Matthew Newman
Leeds
• Sorry, Diane (Letters, 11 March), but the crossword was correct. If you’re aged 79, the purpose of a lectern is sometimes to support both speaker and their notes!
Rev Keith Burchell
Derby
• We learn that one in 42 people is now born a twin (World at ‘peak twin’ as birth rates reach historic high, study finds, 12 March). Only one?
Ian Harris
Wellow, Somerset
