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Letter of the week: A narrow escape
Dear Editor
If the Tories had abolished stamp duty while they were in government, Angela Rayner would still be Deputy PM and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
Brian Silvester
Crewe
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Pay up, you losers
Dear Editor
The Scottish government has failed to pay the £250,000 legal costs awarded to For Women Scotland despite the legal ruling on the definition of ‘woman’ having been made in April 2025 by the Supreme Court. Why the long delay? How long does it take to write a cheque or send a bank credit? Politicians should be made liable for their mistakes or stubbornness and not taxpayers. Politicians should be forced to take out a bond, at their own expense, to cover their bad decisions. That would mean fewer politicians? That would do nicely. Just think of the money saved.
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
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A lesson in density
Dear Editor
‘Net Zero’ politicians and the BBC’s increasingly demented Justin Rowlatt – ‘renewables overtake coal’ – boasting about our ‘world-leading renewable generation’ display breathtaking ignorance.
With our National Grid teetering on the verge of blackouts, here’s a startling fact for the gullible – wind turbines do not produce any energy at all, full stop.
Stand one in a giant hangar and see what happens, or doesn’t.
Place a solar farm in a dark hangar and see what happens, or doesn’t.
The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be converted from one form to another.
So-called ‘renewables’ should really be called energy collectors or converters. They collect energy that already exists, in the form of wind or sunlight, and convert what little there is into electricity.
Therein lies the perpetual problem. If it is dark, still and cold, typical midwinter conditions, there is no energy to collect, thereby literally leaving us in the dark! As we frequently discover, in still, frosty weather, wind ‘energy’ is a technological dead-end.
The intrinsically better sources have what is known as greater ‘energy density’. For example, water is 800 times denser than air, so hydro is always going to give a much greater conversion capture than wind. Coal is intrinsically denser than wood, so much more thermodynamically efficient. A coal fire burns much hotter than wood. Nuclear working at atomic level wins the energy density stakes hands down.
The other hugely damaging problem with parasitic ‘unreliables’ is their voracious material, maintenance, repair, replacement and land requirements. All will be worn out and have to replaced, at astronomical cost, by 2050.
At present, all the world’s energy plants occupy around 0.5 per cent of the Earth’s surface. Trying to capture enough energy from solar and wind would require an astonishing 25-50 per cent of the Earth’s surface! This will leave nowhere for farming, food production, forests, fishing, nature, wildlife habitats, biodiversity, recreation or us.
Before the planet is completely carpeted and wrecked with ‘unreliables’, it is high time the collective density of our deluded, ever-so-green, politicians realised this.
Yours, trying to protect our natural world not destroy it,
George Herraghty
Scotland
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Muslim majority should condemn terror attacks
Dear Editor
Obviously the vast majority of Muslims in the UK, or other countries, will never engage in terrorist action such as the recent attack in Manchester. However very few Muslims, apart from one or two imams joining other faith leaders in an act of remembrance, ever condemn Islamist terror attacks.
Left wingers always claim that what motivates terrorists is a perversion of Islam. If this was indeed the case, surely the vast majority of Muslims would want to distance themselves from the
terrorists. They could easily do this by signing up to #NotInMyName if this existed on X, placing banners condemning terrorism outside their mosques, etc.
The fact that they don’t do this strongly suggests that they either approve of Islamic terrorism or prefer not to criticise other Muslims.
Matt Dalby
Inverness
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Disappointed media are silent on Trump’s triumph
Dear Editor
Is it just me being deafened by the silence of the mainstream media on Donald Trump’s incredible feat in getting a peace deal in Gaza across the line? One is almost tempted to suggest they are disappointed at his achieving what all were saying was impossible.
Roger Cole
