George Osborne’s ‘dangerous cocktail’ leads to memory loss

George Osborne, the UK’s chancellor of the exchequer. Photograph: WPA Pool/Getty Images

So George Osborne tells us we face a “dangerous cocktail” of global risks to the economy (Report, 7 January). The Middle East, China, oil prices, US interest rates, terrorism … But I remember he told us that it was just Gordon Brown.
John Seeley
Birmingham

• I am surprised no link has been made between the prolonged spell of terrible weather and the cancellation by the BBC of their contract with the Met Office.
John Gaskin
Driffield, East Yorkshire

• From whence will derive spurious whiplash claims with driverless cars (Report, 8 January)?
Joe McCann
Haddenham, Buckinghamshire

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