We send Test and Trace more than £350m a week – let’s fund our NHS instead

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Given the disastrous overspend on the Test and Trace programme, which has been found to have minimal impact, and the £500m cost for each percentage point rise in pay for our NHS staff, who have worked selflessly to help those affected by Covid-19, perhaps it is time for a new Boris bus, with this message: “We send Test and Trace more than £350m a week – let’s give it to our NHS instead” Katharine Powell Cheshire Piers Morgan I’m a woman in my sixties, who from my teenage years has suffered from mental health issues, which led in the Eighties to a suicide attempt. Jayne Moring Herefordshire Peaceful protest The article “New crackdown on Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter needed due to a ‘huge inconvenience’, minister says”, rightly raises alarm bells on ministers attacking our right to peaceful protest. Barry Charters Bristol Media censorship Ofcom’s decision to remove the broadcasting license of CGTN – China’s English language TV channel – is an act of censorship that is not in the interests of Britain and its people. John Pilger, prize-winning journalist Oliver Stone, award-winning director, producer and screenwriter Tariq Ali, writer and filmmaker Kerry-Anne Mendoza, editor of The Canary Ben Chacko, editor of the Morning Star Vijay Prashad, chief correspondent of Globetrotter Ken Loach, award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Cook, award-winning author and journalist Lowkey, musician and activist Anna Chen, writer, poet and broadcaster Asa Winstanley, journalist Alan Macleod, senior staff writer at MintPress News John McEvoy, journalist Mohamed Elmaazi, journalist Pablo Navarrete, journalist and documentary filmmaker Fiona Edwards, No Cold War campaign