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Gwyneth Paltrow has been criticised for recommending fasting till 11am to treat long Covid. Tony Purcell wonders if having a late breakfast counts as the same thing Photograph: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for goop
Gwyneth Paltrow has been criticised for recommending fasting till 11am to treat long Covid. Tony Purcell wonders if having a late breakfast counts as the same thing Photograph: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for goop
Letters
Sun 28 Feb 2021 12.06 EST
Last modified on Sun 28 Feb 2021 23.37 EST
I am not surprised that students expressed some doubts about replacing exams with teacher assessments (‘I’d 100% prefer to sit exams’: pupils on teacher-assessed grades, 25 February). When I was at school in 1964, my headteacher asked me if the rejections of my applications to study medicine were complete yet. I qualified at UCH London in 1970.
Keir Starmer delivering his virtual speech on Britain’s economic future. Photograph: Reuters
Well said, Tom Kibasi (Keir Starmer’s leadership needs an urgent course correction, 16 February). As vice-chair of South East Cornwall constituency Labour party (CLP) for five years, I can testify to the demoralising effect that Keir Starmer’s attack on Jeremy Corbyn has had on local activists. I voted for Corbyn twice. I was never a member of Momentum and I recognise that Corbynism failed as an electoral project.
I didn’t vote for Starmer but I was happy to see him elected leader. I thought he was the best-placed candidate to heal the divisions within the party. How wrong I was. Like many of my colleagues on the CLP, I now have very little enthusiasm for the party, I am no longer active in the CLP and I am concentrating on politics at a local level as a parish councillor.