Potholes are simply the most visible sign of the crisis in council funding (How have I changed in 2023? I have become an avid pothole activist, 11 January). Local roads account for 98% of the network and carry two-thirds of traffic, but receive a tiny fraction of what is spent on major roads. Our social care, our safeguarding of vulnerable children and adults, our schools, our youth clubs, our affordable housing and our protection for the environment are all similarly pockmarked with giant craters, broken by years of Tory austerity.
Lucy Hamilton
Weymouth, Dorset
• If posting videos of people crossing the Channel in small boats in a “positive light” is to be illegal(Donelan confirms stiffer online safety measures after backbench pressure, 17 January), how long will it be before posting “negative” videos of people being loaded on to planes to Rwanda is criminalised?
Matt Atkinson
Netley, Hampshire
