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Letter of the week: Thank you, David Keighley
Dear Editor
Superb, heroic insightful journalism, TCW! Which of course what the BBC used to be. David Keighley’s article on the Ofcom partnership with them was so exhaustively researched.
Anne Wilson
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Let’s do it the Muslim way
Dear Editor
Our King and his government appear to think that we could benefit from adopting Islamic practices.
Perhaps we should look to Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and develop our own equivalent rules?
We could ban the construction of mosques and the public display of Islamic worship and clothing. Muslims would be allowed only one copy of the Koran for personal use.
Dual nationals could be banned from parliament and citizenship essentially limited to those of British heritage.
Jim Shaw
Somerset
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Time for Rupert Lowe to be humble
Dear Editor
I totally agree with Kim Rye’s summary of her dilemma.
I suggest Rupert Lowe swallows his pride and his desire for 100 per cent purity and takes up Ben Habib’s offer of leadership of Advance.
If Nigel Farage can be persuaded to stand down as leader, maybe taking up a senior position in a shadow cabinet (foreign secretary) then the door is open for a merger of some sort (maybe).
Maybe I’m wrong and the Right splinter will worsen and miss a golden opportunity.
Chris Gutowski
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Why do we give benefits to those who hate Britain?
Dear Editor
After pressure from 100 MPs and peers the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, agreed to demands to ban the pro-Iranian rally in London this weekend. As Labour minister Sarah Sackman correctly said, the Al Quds Day ‘hate’ march had no place in British society. Those demonstrators are supporting the murderous Iran regime and calling for attacks against Jews many of them being British citizens. This divisive demonstration, and previous ones, was organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission so why has it not been declared a banned organisation? Why is the government providing welfare benefits to most of these demonstrators who clearly hate Britain but not enough to refuse the welfare benefits and social housing? Those who break UK laws should no longer qualify for taxpayer-funded benefits.
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
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I am glad I won’t see 2050
Dear Editor
As I reach my 80th year, I despair of the generations who imagine themselves capable of managing or bettering our progress.
What a tragic situation where I can openly admit that I am glad to be as old as I am, have lived through the decades I did and had all the fun and stimulation, and business success that fortune gifted to me – that I will gratefully not see the world of the 2050s and beyond, the creation of these supremely arrogant technocrats blind to the joys of sunshine, leaves on trees or the laughter of children at play.
Thank you for being there, for your drive, guts and foresight to deliver to us every day the TCW.
It is a wonderful cornucopia of independent, intelligent and uplifting thought. Uplifting and sobering together, if anyone deserves accolade, praise and gongs it is the very wonderful Kathy Gyngell.
Neil Sherry
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Net Zero fantasy
Dear Editor
The Telegraph reported on Wednesday that Net Zero will cost over £125billion this decade, despite >£200billion having been imposed through green levies since the turn of the century. We understand that such levies will continue at least through to 2030. However, if wind and solar energy is cheap, then why are any subsidies needed?
Then note the National Grid’s estimate that £3,000billion will need to be spent on the grid to achieve Net Zero, at least half of which will need to be spent by 2030. And that omits costs associated with transport and industry. Clearly we have neither the money, the materials nor the skilled resources needed to make the grid substantially ready by the early 30s.
It is not surprising that the EU deferred their targets to 2040 and even more surprising that Ed Miliband is holding on to his 2030 target. The rate of progress with EV take-up and roadside charging points availability, not to mention heat pump installations, shows clearly that his targets are neither viable, nor affordable.
But sadly Mr Miliband seems able to dictate to Starmer, and it is worrying that he may be the next PM.
Roger J Arthur
West Sussex
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Starmer slides off the hook
Dear Editor
The toolmaker’s son can hardly believe his luck and expressions of profound relief have spread across the faces of his entire Cabinet as they now blame the war in the Middle East for the impoverishing results of their catastrophic mishandling of the nation’s finances.
Rev’d Dr Peter Mullen
Eastbourne
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Why there is hostility to Muslims
Dear Editor
Re Thursday’s article, ‘Starmer is happy to surrender British culture to the Muslims‘.
‘A civilised society does not tolerate intimidation or violence against religious minorities.’
The current reality is that the British government, the police and the judiciary most certainly do tolerate vile intimidation, violence and child rape at the expense of religious minorities such as Jews, Christians, Sikhs and Hindus, and indigenous Brits in general, who in some places such as Slough, Luton and Leicester are now ethnic minorities!
Yet what happens when we speak out against such open intimidation and the most despicable crimes committed by Muslims? Every part of the Establishment treats the British in general, and the English in particular, as though WE are the criminals and the root cause of all the trouble!
‘The Labour Party frames the initiative as a response to rising hostility toward Muslims in Britain. That concern is legitimate.’
Is it? In the face of blatant Muslim hostility and open aggression towards every other religion and race in Britain, not least indigenous Brits, far from being a ‘legitimate concern’, anti-Muslim hostility is both understandable and fully justified!
I am bewildered that every political party, other than Restore Britain, appears oblivious to the rapidly increasing outrage throughout Britain, and its entirely predictable outcome. They may claim to have the best of intentions, but that will be little consolation when open and widespread insurrection breaks out, and a lot of innocent people are hurt.
To those who say, ‘It couldn’t happen here’, read up on the history of regimes which utterly failed to read the room; they all said it couldn’t happen there – until it did.
John Enright
Derbyshire
