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Letter of the week

Dear Editor,

Your article, ‘Can the US halt British suppression of free speech?’, raised hope that just as Europe has been liberated from two world wars (largely by America, it is important to understand), it may yet again need to be rescued from its own stupidity.

The use of lawfare to prevent Trump from retaking office as president failed miserably when the people’s voice was heard, despite attempts, yet again, to stifle it. This obviously set the alarm bells ringing among the globalist hoards, who immediately decided to stamp on dissent at a much earlier stage, as is being played out in Romania, Germany, France and, of course, in the UK. The reaction of the people speaks for itself: if they are not allowed to give a resounding NO to tyranny in the polls, it will certainly take place on the streets.

The EU has shown itself to be what it always was. Any country, whose citizens believe that their will should be followed in how the State is ran, will be crushed by the master-state as completely as the blitzkrieg of 1939 overran all before it. Whilst Britain bought itself a temporary respite, it seems that those who dominate our politicians view it as a mere setback, having total control of both wings of our Lab-Con uniparty. What little remains of free speech in the UK may owe much to Elon Musk having the foresight to buy Twitter and cut some of the ties. 

It will need much more than difficulties in the arrangement of a trade deal, however, to break through the concrete hard views of our political and government establishments: that truth is what they deem it to be at any given time, regardless of the obvious stupidity of many of their proclamations. After all, they still trumpet the same ‘safe and effective’ drivel regarding injections of modified RNA, despite a surging pandemic of vaccine harm. What we are up against is severe mental illness.

The American administration must have deep concerns that much of our military equipment is operated by their systems and is more than likely to fall into enemy hands if decisions regarding its use are affected by mental instability. Surely it must be in their own interest, as well as ours, to ensure that this can never happen? Without free speech, they cannot judge the true state of any country which shares their technology, a fact about which they will have no delusions.

Much more is at stake for the USA than a trade deal with some insignificant island group off the coast of Europe. If it is in the American interest to declare the United Kingdom a rogue state and act accordingly, then that is surely what will take place. Let’s be blunt: this is the direction in which we are heading. Our ‘leaders’ must be brought to their senses while any small crumb of credibility remains.

They need to keep reminding themselves that the British Empire may not be the force that it once was.

Jim Tumilty

The geese that give the ‘golden’ jab

Dear Editor

The close concurrence of two events on the same day have made me think that the public brainwashing over Covid-19 is still being eagerly (and dangerously) pursued by the Government. I received a copy of an editorial item by the British Medical Journal from a friend, entitled ‘Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science’. Such a title was bound to catch my attention, as I have been concerned for a long time at the way propaganda has usurped good science over covid and climate change. One paragraph was, I felt, particularly pertinent.

‘Science is being suppressed for political and financial gain. Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health. Politicians and industry are responsible for this opportunistic embezzlement. So too are scientists and health experts. The pandemic has revealed how the medical-political complex can be manipulated in an emergency – a time when it is even more important to safeguard science.’

This statement was made in November 2020 at the height of the furore regarding lockdowns and compulsory inoculation. I would have let it go at that, but later that day I was asked by a staff member at the care home where I live, whether I wanted the latest version of the ‘jab’, to which the answer was an emphatic NO. I was required cosign a form to this effect.

I was amazed that the NHS was persisting in following a failed course of action, but I reflected that the same cabal of medical officialdom and Big Pharma were not going to give up the goose that lays such golden eggs.

James Dent

Suffolk

Brunel’s biggest blunder

Dear Editor,

Some of the more fanciful green-energy schemes I see postulated in the media these days, particularly those regarding transport, remind me very much of I. K. Brunel’s one really bad idea: the atmospheric railway. 

As a schoolboy, I was taught that the failure of his experimental line, which ran along the easy, gradient-free, water-level southern bank of the Exe Estuary, was due entirely to rats eating the tallow which was applied to the leather skirt, and which was required to maintain the main vacuum-pipe as airtight.

But this cruel rat-libel has gone on for too long. The fact is that the atmospheric railway was an idea which could only fail, except perhaps as a novelty fairground ride. Unlike compressed air, which can be produced to very high pressures, the maximum power available to overcome a vacuum can never exceed the atmospheric pressure naturally present in the immediate environment. This means that an atmospheric-powered vehicle is very limited in both tractive-effort and speed.

To make matters worse, in practice, the pumping stations creating the vacuum and which had to be built every few miles, consumed more fuel (coke) than the steam locomotives that they were designed to replace.

By the time the South Devon Atmospheric Railway was being trialled in the 1840s, Great Western Railway’s own locomotive engineer, Daniel Gooch, had already designed and built his ‘Iron Duke’ class of steam locomotive, which could haul a whole train of coaches or goods vehicles and had been tested at speeds of up to 78mph.

And yet, even today, I still encounter people who maintain wistfully that Brunel was simply ‘ahead of his time’.

Brian Meredith

The strife in Fife is being dragged out

Dear Editor

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has intervened in the row over NHS Fife allowing trans staff to use single-sex facilities. Nurse Sandie Peggie has brought an employment claim, alleging discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and Dr Upton (who was born a male but identifies as a woman). EHRC decides which organisations are not complying with the equality and human rights laws and has written to NHS Fife reminding them of its duties and asked for impact assessments and policies, which affect equalities, to be handed over. NHS Fife Chief Executive, Carol Potter (salary £148,000) failed to provide the information. She is stalling since it is obvious that Sandie Peggie will win this case, and the taxpayer will have to fund the legal costs and compensation involved. If Carol Porter had immediately agreed that trans staff would no longer be allowed to use single-sex facilities, it would have resolved the matter. Carol Potter must be sacked without any compensation.

Clark Cross

Linlithgow