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Letter of the week: Big Tech’s grip on ‘ethical’ funds
Dear Editor
Before Rachel from Accounts nukes or reduces the tax-free 25 per cent option, I have been looking at my pension holdings.
In two funds options that I am not in, the Climate Fund and the ESG Fund, (environmental social governance), both managed by ‘holier than holy’ L&G Asset Management, out of the top ten holdings in both funds, we see Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet and Amazon.
What a joke!
All these companies are, in reality, dismal in terms of carbon footprint, labour policies, resource use, and especially in the case of Nvidia, energy consumption.
They are also terrible on monopolistic behaviour, including driving out competition and in the case of Microsoft and Apple, building obsolescence into their products so their products end up in landfill.
And people happily invest in such funds and hence buy the stock of these firms.
People truly are morons.
David Lawrenson
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Brexit’s not to blame, the wreckers are
Dear Editor
Recently Wes Streeting, our Health Minister, has blamed the problems Labour are experiencing on Brexit. Not to be left out, Rachel Reeves, our rapidly failing Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose only experience of economics was working in the complaints department of a bank, jumped on the bandwagon and moaned that all our woes and the reason taxes are so high are down to Brexit.
It would seem these days the best excuse for the failings of just about everything can be blamed on Brexit. However, those who moan about Brexit being at the heart of all our problems never seem to have a full explanation of how.
Reeves has failed miserably. As soon as she became our Chancellor, she was full of doom and gloom and talked the economy down and made up a concocted story of a £22billion black hole which had the effect of suppressing our economy. Then she took money away from hard-pressed pensioners whose state pensions equate to less than the minimum wage, and gave great lashing of taxpayers’ money to Labour’s trade union pals who are now coming back for more.
Since coming to power Labour have spitefully added VAT to private education, forcing many schools to close. Reeves increased the minimum wage and added extra to national insurance for employers which means they have had to make staff redundant, thus increasing unemployment; now we are on the verge of more of her misery and no doubt another round of Brexit bashing.
Those whose job it is to make Brexit work, our civil servants and politicians, hate Brexit and are deliberately sabotaging our escape from the EU, then blaming all our ills upon us leaving the EU even though it was them who ensured we left with a bad deal. Had those who support Brexit been the ones to implement it instead of the current batch of wreckers, the UK would be thriving now we are free of EU pettifogging rules and absurd bureaucracy; we would be seeing great improvements with low taxes and a rapidly growing economy. We should not blame our problems on Brexit but on the wreckers of Brexit instead.
Derek Bennett
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The absurdity of Black History Month
Dear Editor
What have Amharas (the heirs of Ethiopia’s distinctive civilisation), Jamaicans (the descendants of enslaved people), West Africans (whose ancestors sold the Jamaicans’ ancestors to Europeans) and Zulus (the descendants of a warrior nation) got in common? Very little, but absurdly in Black History Month their very different histories and identities are all lumped together.
Most people are woefully ignorant of the proud history of our country, of the great men and women who contributed so much not just to Britain, but for the benefit of the whole human race.
Wouldn’t it be much better to have a month celebrating this history which unites us, rather than this appalling American import which is calculated to divide?
Otto Inglis
Fife
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Will there be any action on the ‘Zios in the ground’ student?
Dear Editor
Samuel Williams, a student who was filmed at a Palestine Solidarity Campaign chanting ‘put the Zios in the ground’ is studying at the University of Oxford. The police are investigating what many see as anti-Jewish chants calling for the deaths of Jews. A university spokesman was quick to say ‘The university condemns, in the strongest possible terms, any language urging violence against groups of people or expressing any form of racial hatred.’
This is clearly hate speech which is defined as ‘public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex or sexual orientation’. Will the university quickly expel Samuel Williams and will the police quickly arrest and charge Samuel Williams?
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
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Daniel Jupp should be on the front pages
Dear Editor
Daniel Jupp was totally right this week – the Palestinian cause is never over. But why? Why wouldn’t they be happy? Therein lies the answer – because nothing will satisfy them. Jupp’s piece should grace the front pages of all newspapers, but it never will. You need to ask yourself – again – why.
Bill Kenwright
London
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Ban hypocritical politicians from the Cenotaph ceremony
Dear Editor
With the annual Remembrance ceremonies only a few weeks away I have been thinking, like so many I presume, of how successive governments of both colours have failed in their promise to ‘Build a Country fit for heroes’. In fact, it is fair to say that, at no time since those sentiments were expressed, has the country been in such a state of despair and that promise has been so blatantly betrayed. I would therefore like to see in future a ‘politician free zone’ at the Cenotaph and stop the hypocrisy.
Martin Bradley
Liverpool
