Perhaps the Nobel prize scientists who discovered the quantum dot could be set to work on detecting an equivalent dot of contrition in Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party conference speech (Key takeaways from Rishi Sunak’s 7,500-word Tory conference speech, 4 October).
John Lowery
London
• It’s odd that the prime minister proposes a ban on smoking “for the nation’s health” while simultaneously encouraging road traffic congestion with its accompanying emissions and pollution.
John Weightman
Ettington, Warwickshire
• Why is it that no one has pointed out that raising the minimum wage to £11, as Jeremy Hunt pledges (Report, 1 October), is an increase of 5.6%? This is below the August CPI rate of 6.7% and the average rate of pay increase, which in July was running at 7.8%. Hardly the generous increase the chancellor is portraying.
Fred Pickering
Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire
• The correspondence about breast pockets (Letters, 29 September) reminds me that I often bemoan the lack of any pockets at all in many skirts and dresses. Keeping a handkerchief up a sleeve just doesn’t work as it almost invariably falls out. Designers, please note!
Patricia Pipe
Saltash, Cornwall
• What a crying shame they didn’t begin work on HS2 at the northern end (Industry backlash at Sunak’s ‘damaging’ U-turn on northern leg of HS2, 4 October).
Helen Watson
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
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