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Saying goodbye to mum at the seaside | Brief letters

11/05/2019 Letters 0

The shore | Cod liver oil | Escaping the GDR | Cob coalingCatherine Kelly tells Elle Hunt that “to go to the sea is synonymous with letting go” (We do like to be beside the seaside, 4 November). My mother gave us two good reasons for taking this litera…

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Helping parents choose vaccination for their children

10/25/2019 Letters 0

One way could be to require parents to have a meeting with a medical professional, where parents learn about how herd immunity works, says one parentI am not sure that making immunisations compulsory, especially for state school pupils, is the way to i…

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Special needs children are being failed | Letters

10/24/2019 Letters 0

Readers condemn the latest select committee report into the treatment of children with learning disabilitiesThis is the most damning select committee report I’ve ever read (Children with special needs plunged into ‘nightmare of bureaucracy’, 23 October…

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An existential approach to cancer | Letter

10/24/2019 Letters 0

Online you can find miracle cures, writes Aliya Hasan, but only existentialism resonatesIt is breast cancer awareness month. As someone with secondary breast cancer I am aware of the disease every day. Since I was diagnosed last August I’ve been in a m…