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Letter of the week
Dear Editor
Covid was an exercise in whether a population could be locked down (an interesting use of a prison term) which was mainly successful. The generality of people became babyfied; they needed to hold nanny’s hand. So, when nanny complains that too many of her charges are dependent on state benefits, surely that was to be expected?
Kathleen Carr
Sheffield
TCW’s covid columns still holding strong!
Dear Editor
Just a quick note to say I’m enjoying the ‘5th anniversary’ covid lockdown articles.
I had yet to discover TCW at that point (I think it was a good 18 months before I had that pleasure) so it’s nice to catch up with those pieces as a reminder that good people were putting their heads above the parapet at a time when the incoming fire was probably at its most intense.
John Hale
Satire to breach the walls of censorship
Dear Editor
There’s nothing new about being persecuted if you defy contemporary censorship. It’s as old as humanity itself. It’s how satire flourishes. Instead of bemoaning our loss of freedom, we should see it as a golden opportunity to face the challenges with subversive wit and the joy of getting round the restrictions by being cleverer with our manipulation of the English language.
This new censorship hurdle could alter the persona of TCW more towards the original Punch, a more daring yet comical read, deliberately hiding behind innuendo and feigned obfuscation, i.e. less indignation, more devious naughtiness and wicked humour.
John Drewry
Beckenham
Forum freedom
Dear Editor
I feel sure you find your time employed more positively not having to monitor a forum.
Kind regards
Michael
The immigrant’s land of milk and honey
Dear Editor
No wonder those pretending to be refugees and asylum seekers are flooding over the Channel. Over 95 per cent are fit young men with a few women and children to gather the sympathy vote. The UK feeds them and puts them up in hotels, costing UK taxpayers £8million a day. Kent County Council even gives them driving lessons at a cost of £30,000 so far.
Obviously, the UK is a soft touch, since they have all travelled through Europe and its many safe havens; if they were genuine, they would have claimed asylum in the first safe haven. Instead, they crossed the Channel to go to the UK, the land flowing with milk and honey, soft politicians and pro-migrant lawyers paid legal aid by the unwilling taxpayer. No need to work, since the British taxpayers will fund them. They get NHS treatment and could be eligible for social housing. We have been betrayed by politicians who act tough on immigration but always fail to deliver.
Clark Cross
Never Again Day
Dear Editor
Today, a group of us will meet to mark Never Again Day. This is the anniversary of the day on which Boris Johnson instructed the nation to stay at home in a TV broadcast in 2020. When we saw it, we all thought ‘f*ck off’ and continued to live life as normally as we could. We ran a support group which met fortnightly, in person, from August 2020. Members of that group (KBF Sussex) went on to set up other campaign groups, co-operatives, a home-schooling service and more. Those of us who feel the measures taken did more harm than good will never let this happen again.
Nigel Jacklin
The new power-guzzling EV pipe dream
Dear Editor
The Telegraph recently reported on the development of an EV battery which can be charged in 5 minutes.
At 3.5miles/kWh, a 143kWh EV battery would be required for a 500-mile range, but EV makers recommend that the battery should be kept between 20 per cent and 80 per cent charged, which implies 2.1 miles per nominal kWh capacity.
So, around 240kWh of charge would be required for a 500-mile EV range – equating to 2½ hours from a 100kW charging point.
A charger rating of 240kW would do it in one hour, but to do it in 1/12th of an hour would require a charger rating of nearly 3MW (megawatts)
You will not find many public charging points of that rating, now or ever. Just 25 such service station outlets would require a 75 MVA substation, with a capacity capable of supplying a town of 75,000 people.
Roger J Arthur
Hollybank
