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Letter of the week: What we need to know about former Tory MP Crispin Blunt
Dear Editor
When a 65-year-old man pleads guilty to possession of cannabis and crystal meth, it is a fairly safe bet that he has been involved with illegal drugs for many years. What makes the case rather concerning is that the man in question, Crispin Blunt, is a former Conservative MP and was from 2010 to 2012 the Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Youth Justice. Evening Standard In that role he was responsible for among other things criminal law, sentencing policy and criminal justice.
Several awkward questions inevitably arise: Was he a drug user at the time? Did any of his colleagues know? Why wasn’t he properly vetted? Did he undermine the war against drugs?
The seriousness of this matter requires that it be properly investigated, at the very least by the police, quite possibly by a public inquiry chaired by a senior judge.
Penny Ponders
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Who will get slavery reparations?
Dear Editor
The United Nations has voted for Britain to pay trillions in compensation for the transatlantic slave trade. The Telegraph Who will receive this money? Surely not those who live in Africa, as they were never taken away as slaves. This leaves those whose ancestors went to the Caribbean. Obviously their descendants must decide but, for example, have Sir Lenny Henry or David Lammy done that badly in life? Could they have expected a better life if their relatives had stayed in Africa? Lastly, won’t former slaves’ descendants who live in Britain end up paying part of the bill for reparations? Obviously everyone likes the idea of free money, but how will it benefit anyone to bankrupt Britain to pay compensation to relatives of long dead people who nobody living today knew?
Kathleen Carr
Sheffield
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Persecution of Christians
Dear Editor
I PRESENT two clear incontrovertible examples of the two-tier justice operating today in the UK. Nick Timothy was recently condemned by his own party for his ‘act of domination’ comment regarding the mass Islamic prayer gathering in London, attended by Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan. BBC News Adam Connor-Smith, a Christian, became the first person convicted in this country for thought crime, for silent prayer near an abortion clinic. The Catholic Herald I wonder if the police would have been so keen to prosecute if an individual praying for an unborn child was Muslim.
As a Christian, I’m minded we’ve come full circle to the period of the early Christians who were persecuted under the Romans. There’s a phrase from the French Revolution that sums it up: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Going forward I’m aware now of the risk of expressing my faith in a public place but not deterred.
David Hulland
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Where is Dave Allen when we need him?
Dear Editor
The ‘installation’ (dreadful word but perhaps suitable on this occasion) of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury was very reminiscent of a sketch from the late great Dave Allen. How we would have howled with laughter.
Those were indeed the days.
Margaret Campbell
Wirral
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PM’s missing common sense
Dear Editor
Adrian Brown’s TCW piece on Starmer and international law was rife with common sense. Perhaps one of One Tool Too Many’s flush pals could acquire some for him.
Anthony Stimson
New Hampshire, USA
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Starmer is incapable of defending the realm
Dear Editor
Our PM continues to fall back on ‘international law’ to avoid difficult decisions, as highlighted by these articles in TCW last week here and here, while our adversaries have no such constraint.
Starmer naively expects to reach a peaceful settlement with a regime which is committed to destroy Israel and its people and has deployed many proxies to bring death and destruction to unbelievers.
He fails to think laterally, ignoring the need to exploit UK oil and gas resources, with gas reserves of a few days. Spending £billions on military hardware will achieve little, if we can be brought to our knees so quickly through a lack of energy.
A strong leader would have sacked the current Energy Secretary and have immediately taken corrective action to reduce dependence on imported energy. But he seems to fear the Islamo-Green Alliance more than the spectre of Iran with nukes and long range ICBMs.
He has proved himself incapable of defending the realm on either front.
Roger J Arthur
West Sussex
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We can’t afford to lose TCW
Dear Editor
My wife and I were devastated to learn that TCW might be closing down. Read more here. Writing for it and reading it has given me a new lease on life. I pray to God that you will find the money you need to continue publishing. TCW’s departure would leave a gaping hole in British online journalism and deprive readers around the world of its reasoned, moral, and decent approach to the problems and challenges that bedevil Britain and the world in general.
God bless you and TCW, now and always.
Bernard Carpenter
