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Letter of the week: Britain is not bone idle
Dear Editor
Regarding Robert Worms’s letter on January 23, his characterisation of Britain as ‘bone idle’ is rather all-encompassing and extreme, considering there are millions of hard-working and patriotic Brits. The majority should not be coloured with the same brush as the minority of the indolent. One million citizens turned out for the UTK event, and thousands put their money into Rupert Lowe’s grooming gangs inquiry, to name just two instances where the people have acted.
We are now pushed into a corner where there is more than a stirring of the people. I can understand the negativity of the writer being driven by frustration, but we need to encourage, not discourage. I would characterise the population less as lazy (although there is always a section of society who do nothing and live off the state), more as being reluctant to take action until pushed too far for too long. I think we could now be at that tipping point. When pushed into a corner, with no escape route, there will be a reaction.
John Hale
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We don’t know what is worth standing up for
Dear Editor
Robert Worms is surely right about one thing in his letter: there will be no barricades, no storming of Winter Palaces, no English ‘Year Zero’. The British temperament does not incline to insurrection. We grumble, we vote less, we march occasionally, and then we go home. The country will not erupt. It will, as he says, muddle on.
But to describe this as mere apathy or national idleness is to mistake the symptom for the disease.
What we are witnessing is not a failure of energy so much as a failure of orientation. People are not inert; they are misaligned. They work, protest, emote, post, argue and campaign, yet without a shared centre of gravity that tells them what is finally worth standing up for, and what is not.
A society can be very busy and still be drifting.
The collapse is not primarily economic or political. It is hierarchical. We no longer agree where authority properly lies: in conscience, in truth, in family, in faith, in law, in nation, or in the moral order that once underwrote them. When that ordering dissolves, motivation dissolves with it. Effort becomes scatter. Protest becomes theatre. Politics becomes management of moods rather than defence of foundations.
This is why productivity falters, trust erodes, and civic responsibility thins. Not because Britons have suddenly become lazy by nature, but because work, duty and sacrifice make sense only when they serve something that commands loyalty. When nothing commands, everything negotiates. When everything negotiates, nothing is worth striving for at cost.
The language of ‘broken Britain’ implies fracture. What we are experiencing is closer to suspension. The structures still stand, but the load-bearing beams of meaning have weakened. We continue out of habit, not conviction. Habit can sustain order for a time. It cannot regenerate it.
Nor will street unrest supply what has been lost. Revolutions do not restore moral architecture; they exploit its absence. They are born not from courage but from vacuum. England is unlikely to go that way, not because we are virtuous, but because we are unconvinced. The will to overturn requires belief as much as the will to conserve.
The deeper question, therefore, is not why people will not fight, but why they no longer know what would be worth fighting for.
Until that question is faced, commentary will oscillate between two equally inadequate diagnoses: that the public is cowardly, or that the system is irredeemable. In truth, a people without a shared centre will display neither sustained rebellion nor sustained renewal – only drift, complaint, and managerial decline.
A nation does not recover its vitality by shouting louder or working longer. It recovers it by remembering what stands above it, what orders it, and what ultimately judges it.
Without that, we will indeed muddle along.
Not because we are bone idle.
But because we no longer know where the ground is.
Andrew D Harry
Cornwall
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Denmark’s horrific mistreatment of the Greenland Inuit
Dear Editor
In the recent past Denmark has mistreated the indigenous population of Greenland appallingly in a contraception campaign which has been likened to ‘cultural genocide’.
According to this article by the BBC, during the 1960s and 1970s, some 4,500 Inuit women and girls as young as 12, about half of all fertile females on the island, were fitted with contraceptive devices by Danish doctors.
A few cases of forced contraception also took place after this time, as late as 2018.
Also in 1951 the Danish colonial authorities removed 22 Greenlandic Inuit children (nine girls and 13 boys), with dubious consent from their parents or guardians, from their homes, relocating them to Denmark for adoption and education.
It would appear that Denmark wanted the indigenous Inuit population to literally die out due to the lack of births.
Now that Trump wants to take over Greenland, this horrific past is being swept under the carpet.
Why?
Brian Silvester
Crewe
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The Long Covid riddle
Dear Editor
There seems to be a surge of posts on X blaming many chronic health conditions on Long Covid. Most of these have developed in the last couple of years. Surely those who took the miracle mRNA vaccines were protected from serious illness. We were told initially that they also prevented infection and transmission, but this was misinformation as the makers do not make these claims.
The most damaging part of the virus was the well reported spike protein, which has a high affinity to cell receptors around the body. Presumably it is this that results in the long-term effects. So it seems strange that the ‘vaccine’ was designed to produce this very part of the virus in prodigious quantities for a still undetermined duration. The last report which I have seen was for over three years, but still counting.
So I find it confusing that there is much certainty that Long Covid caused these issues. Could it not equally be the prolonged production of the most (if not only) dangerous part of the virus by the vaccine, not infection? Perhaps it is MAINLY from the vaccine-originated spike protein, which seems to have long duration.
Doctors still seem ‘baffled’. Let’s help them to stop being unsure of the cause of damage to patients. All we need to do is to find the numbers vaccinated and those not, and compare the rates of long-term illness due to ‘Long Covid’ in the two groups.
I can’t think why our doctors aren’t asking this question. Perhaps it’s because I do not have medical training.
Of course it is just possible that the destructive effect on immunity by repeated injections of the same thing, which is well described, is playing a massive role, not only in ‘Long Covid’ but also the surge on cancers which are normally kept at bay by a healthy immune system.
Jim Tumilty
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Green power plant built with far-from-green Chinese steel
Dear Editor
The Green politicians and their supporters will be dancing in the aisles with the news that a taxpayer-funded £4billion green power plant will be built on the site of the former Redcar steelworks. However the 7,000 tons of construction steel needed will not be British but Chinese. The deal between Net Zero Teesside and China’s Modern Modular Engineering and Construction Company (MMEC) will cost UK taxpayers £10million. Why give taxpayers’ money to China which stubbornly remains responsible for over 30 per cent of global emissions? The reason is that MMEC’s steel is claimed to be green as it is made from an electric furnace whereas British Steel’s would be from Scunthorpe’s blast furnaces which use coke made from ‘nasty’ coal. But is Chinese electricity green? Highly unlikely since China has 1195 coal-fired electricity plants and are building 300 more. About 60 per cent of China’s electricity is generated from coal. The only thing UK politicians generate is rapidly increasing unemployment.
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
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And finally . . .
Dear Editor
Did you see Katy Perry with Justin Trudeau at Davos?
Looks like she’s finally Kissed a Girl.
Stephen Priest
Wokingham
