The UK’s economy is stagnating. Meanwhile China is leaping ahead. If they want to widen a road or build an extra airport runway they move people out of the way and get the bulldozers in. No messing about.

As Mr Spock said in Star Trek: “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

Neville Baker, Hollow Way, Cowley, Oxford

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