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Letter of the week: Cock-up, not conspiracy
Dear Editor
Why do so many commentators consider the rest of us gullible and stupid just because we have a different opinion?
Accusing someone of just following the crowd or being deceived because they are adhering to the conventional narrative is ridiculous.
If experts agree, then it is very likely they are right! We are not being duped or conned by the establishment who are trying for some obscure reason to lead us down some garden path.
There are no sinister motives or global conspiracies, usually it is just plain old incompetence if things turn out wrong. Or, rather too frequently, opportunistic money-making.
Obviously, this letter does not quite fit the TCW narrative but that does not make it untrue.
Robert Worms
Totnes, Devon
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The offensive/defensive muddle
Dear Editor
Undoubtedly Starmer made a brave attempt to add some gravitas to his persona last week. However I can’t help thinking he succeeded in exposing his lack of any foreign policy before he came into office as well as ignorance of the geopolitical scene.
But strangest of all was his separation of our airbases being used by the US for defensive purposes as opposed to offensive purposes.
If America has launched an offensive attack, obviously it’s going to defend its military hardware, personnel, civilians and allies. But those missions necessarily form part of an offensive attack. The first strike is offensive, that doesn’t make future ones defensive.
Whether you applaud the attack or not, I’m not sure why so many MPs on left and right are letting him get away with his flawed logic. Or is it just me?
Chris Gutowski
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Our brains are out of date
Dear Editor
Why have the societal infections of the modern world been growing and getting deadlier?
It surely comes down to human nature. We never evolved to cope with information flows perhaps hundreds of times greater than throughout our history. Our brains are dominated by a fast, powerful emotional control room evolved for survival. This gets first shot at forming our reactions and beliefs. Under an onslaught of information we are pressured to react in ways we would not if we thought about it, but even worse end up forming beliefs that even a little thought would negate.
The unique logical power of the human brain is much slower and more submissive in comparison, and easily overwhelmed. It has had a much shorter evolution and I guess is nowhere near fully formed. Logic has to be engaged deliberately. Call it critical thinking or common sense or just ‘sleeping on it’. It does not seem to be strong in many people but experience shows that it can be taught even in adults, and it can be unlearned to make even intelligent people susceptible to stupidity.
Mike Gill
Hampshire
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How Zack Polanski avoided the big question
Dear Editor
Now that the Muslim community of Gorton and Denton have outed themselves as votes for hire, perhaps the Reform Party should make them an offer before the next election. The Green Party with its ‘free for all’ policies was hardly an ideal match, yet Svengali Zack Polanski guided his pretty protégée Hannah to electoral success. A lot of the election concentrated on the problems of Gaza and was conducted in Urdu, so former hypnotist Zack never had to explain how, if the Greens gained power, he would magic away that particular international situation.
Kathleen Carr
Sheffield
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Labour’s Lickspittles for Islam
Dear Editor
Per Daniel Jupp’s Friday contribution, ‘Britain is beginning to feel like a conquered land’, perhaps the Labour Party should change its name to Lickspittles for Islam.
Anthony Stimson
New Hampshire, USA
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Third World Britain
Dear Editor
The police are being urged to investigate ‘clear evidence’ of voter fraud in the Manchester by-election since election observers reported ‘family voting’, an illegal practice where a man enters the polling booth with his wife and instructs her how to vote. The independent group Democracy Volunteers warned that numerous votes cast may have been by this practice. This is a criminal offence eligible for a prison sentence. Postal voting surely needs investigation since the dominant person can gather up the blank forms of those eligible and vote as he/she wishes? Parts of the UK have become like a Third World country where UK laws are ignored.
Clark Cross
West Lothian
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Well worth reading
Dear Editor
After reading Donna Rachel Edmunds’s article The right wins arguments but loses the country. What are we going to do about it? I downloaded her 150-page PDF and read it over the following two days.
In it, she gives the diagnosis and she gives the cure. It’s excellent work. TCW is to be congratulated on publishing it.
Two days later, I look at the comments under the article. Alas, I see no sign that anyone has read this PDF. I commend it to the TCW readership.
Allan Gay
Irchester
