Frightening the horses

sir – Is anyone surprised that people go mad with exuberance when they are “allowed out”? I was a racehorse trainer and if a vet insisted a horse had a month’s box rest they too went mad when they got out. Sometimes we had to sedate them. Perhaps this is what Sage and Boris are planning for us. David Murray Smith

London W4

sir – It is now clear that our Prime Minister is treating us like idiots. His pronouncement that the reduction in infections is due to lockdown and not the vaccinations confirms this.

Is there nothing he will not do or say to keep us shackled?

Peter Flesher

Halifax, West Yorkshire