Get ahead of the tech curve: aim for Hangzhou, not Silicon Valley | Brief letters

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Rachel Reeves is behind the tech curve in proposing to create “Europe’s Silicon Valley” (

Report, 28 January

). She should surely be considering an equivalent of Hangzhou, home of DeepSeek, the company that knocked

$1tn off the value

of US tech stocks in a day.

John Lowery


London

A “spectacular” vertebra has been “found online” (

Report, 28 January

). Given the recent changes to Meta, I doubt it was Mark Zuckerberg’s.

Dr Jonathan J Ross


Sheffield

• What’s it like to start your holiday in the airport bar (

G2, 22 January

)? I fancy myself as a Joan Collins-style traveller, so I have a tiny bottle of champagne from the trolley on the plane (to follow the free whisky samples I drank in departures).

Laura Ashton


Haslemere, Surrey

• Is Labour a faithful or a traitor (

In this government’s hands, big ideas always end up looking small. Just ask Ed Miliband, 29 January

)?

Emma Tait


London

Amid a decade of could-do-better school reports (

Letters, 29 January

), I surprised my house master. I still have the newsletter with his account of the cross-country race: “O’Brien, throwing off his usual apathy, came second.” Sixty years later, I can reveal that I didn’t want to miss the early train home.

Dr Richard O’Brien


Highbridge, Somerset

• My maths teacher wrote in my school report: “Neil must learn to stop asking questions.” My maths education didn’t proceed much further after that.

Neil Hanson


Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire

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