Get ahead of the tech curve: aim for Hangzhou, not Silicon Valley | Brief letters
Rachel Reeves is behind the tech curve in proposing to create “Europe’s Silicon Valley” (
). 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
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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 (
)? 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
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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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