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Letter of the week
Dear Editor
Firstly I write to wish you a very Happy New Year! I hope and pray for your good health, strength and continued stewardship of TCW in 2025.
I am very proud to have been a reader/supporter of your publication since 2014 when I used to wonder who this mysterious but eloquent ‘conservative woman’ was! It is a source of pride to be associated with TCW, even remotely, because over these years I have witnessed how you have nurtured the small green shoots into a powerful, almost solitary, voice of dissent that our poor country so desperately needs.
I have especially enjoyed reading your Week in review on Sundays that started in 2024. I take issue with the reader back in September who requested you put a bit more ‘love’ into them. Yours and most of your regular contributors are laced with love of the most necessary sort – the hard love of a parent rebuking a wayward child with the objective of bringing said child to its senses. Yes, Britain needs to hear you, I only wish it would hurry up and listen!
I want to congratulate you too on your Christmas season contributors this year. I have especially enjoyed articles such as Francis Phillips’s ‘Why Poetry Matters’, this was a beautifully written exposition on the nature and importance of poetry and the finer arts in general that I will keep it for reference. Please pass on my gratitude to Francis for such a thoughtful and well constructed article, which reminded me that I stand at the feet of a generation whose education and learning towers over my own. Equally, Josef Cressotti’s critique of Bogart/Hepburn’s The African Queen has been compulsive reading, such an eloquent and uplifting analysis, that highlighted so much of the subtext of one of my favourite films.
It was also a wonderful idea to revisit the seven Christian virtues. So much of TCWs perspective is, I feel, from a sound Christian perspective. My own conversion to Christianity occurred over a period of a few years from 2019 (although maybe the roots dig a little deeper, back to Brexit and 2016 and the great betrayal of those most despicable leaders, Cameron, May and possibly worst of all Johnson) when I realised, in a slow but enlightening epiphany, the depth and extent to which Evil runs this world. I felt there was no option but to turn away from it towards Christ and truth and His love for us. It has been a fascinating journey.
I really wish you all the best for 2025, your stoicism, vision and determination to fight against the collective evil of our government, politicians, the ‘blob’ of civil servants, quangos and the lamentable public sector which has, and continues to be, exemplary. I hope that when Trump stops being ‘President-Elect’ and finally takes office he starts shaking things up and making life difficult for the globalist-marxist left and their awful band of lustful, self-serving apparatchiks who have garnered for themselves so much power since 1945 – very little of it used for the benefit of anyone but themselves.
My best regards to you and all at TCW,
Dave Lowe
Sabotage we can’t afford
Dear Editor
The probable sabotage of the Estlink2 power cable between Finland and Estonia brings to mind Leon Trotsky’s observation: ‘You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.’
In November when two trans-Baltic data cables were severed the German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius observed ‘nobody believes that these cables were cut accidentally’.
What these and other incidents have in common is Russia waging hybrid warfare against its perceived enemies. We don’t have the option to ignore the infrastructure attacks because all the states concerned – Germany, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania and Estonia – are our NATO allies.
Britain has also experienced Russian attacks going back to the murder of Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive Polonium 210 and the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal with the Novichok nerve agent.
With major power interconnections to France and Norway, subsea data cables and any number of oil and gas pipelines, we are extremely vulnerable to exactly this sort of attack.
Our defences are scandalously weak. The government must act immediately to greatly increase defence spending and must make strengthening our armed forces its paramount priority.
Otto Inglis
Fife
Will Nigel recognise Tommy’s merits?
Dear Editor
Recently, in the online edition of the Daily Mail, the Mail Online, Tommy Robinson was referred to as a ‘far right thug’. In the newspaper a few days later, he was ‘a jailed UK hate monger’, and ‘our own far-Right rabble rouser’. Nice.
Future dreamscape? Tommy Robinson a Reform MP? I wonder if Nigel Farage will swallow hard and recognise the merits and potential of that.
Thank you and the team for your hard work and dedication. You provide light and hope.
Very best wishes for the future. Looks like it will be quite a ride.
Martin Denning
Bristol
No ‘honour’ in resisting the vaccine lies
Dear Editor
I sent this to my old university friend who sarcastically asked if I thought I merited a badge of honour for skipping the covid ‘vaccine’ . . .
‘There is a lot to your Badge of Honour question and whether skipping the ‘vaccines’ merits a badge of honour. But the key point is that when they rolled them out, they were actively promoted by our government, our mainstream media (and most other governments and mainstream media around the world) as stopping you getting ‘covid’ and stopping you passing it on to others. Both were total lies, which became bleeding obvious by about five months in, when people who had got injected, many multiple times, kept getting ‘covid’ more often and obviously passing it on.
Interestingly, after a few months of this evidence, the pharma companies owned up and said they never claimed it would do either thing, finally producing their claims for their ‘vaccines’ which tbf did not claim either thing for their experimental injections. Yet when they were promoting them, they were of course happy to go along with the lie and, disgracefully, very few in the mainstream media were willing to question this claim at the time. Why did so many governments and the main media lie? Lies that they have never really called out that I doubt our pathetic Hallett Inquiry will either. Yet billions of people worldwide were injected with an experimental injection leading to excess deaths in every country where take up was high, all based on two lies and still the media mostly won’t go there and report it.
Till my dying breath I will never understand why so many lined up for it when the stupidity and pointlessness of the lockdowns was already so evident and given big pharmas appalling track record; or why they thought it a fair risk given the novel experimental nature of the injections, plus the obvious fact that the average age of death with ‘covid’ was a year older than average age of death overall.
Yes, I feel sorry for folks who got injected, especially three or more times, where the highest excess death and illness now seems to be. But given the obvious lies my sympathy only goes so far, especially as I was abused by people I knew for not taking it, and my dad was too. I am still extremely angry. Not least because NHS injectors went against my brothers’ and my clearly stated wishes https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/we-told-them-not-to-jab-our-parents-they-ignored-us-and-our-father-died/ and finally managed to inject a helpless old man and woman who both had dementia (and in my Dad’s case, no capacity) all, I suspect, for the money, which was double for doing it at a patient’s home. I am still livid about their refusal to put their admission of fault in writing, now that it’s with the Ombudsman.
David Lawrenson
World population and NetZero
Dear Editor
We are told we need to reduce mankind’s harmful greenhouse gas emissions. The UK population today is 68 million, a tiny fraction of the world population of 8.2 billion. The World population in 1950 was 2.5billion, (UK 50million) in 1995 at the first COP meeting it was 5.74billion (UK 58million) in 2000 was 6.17billion (UK 58.8million) and is now 8.2billion (UK 68million). A United Nations report says that the world population could reach 9.8billion in 2050 and 11.2billion by 2100. Why have none of the attendees over 29 years of COPs ever raised the escalating world population? Strange that world politicians and those in the climate industry have remained silent. Do they really think that EVs, heat pumps, eating less meat and banning fossil fuels will achieve Net Zero?
Clark CrossLinlithgow
Stressful times for Starmaslas
Dear Editor
‘Good King Starmaslas looked out on the Feast of Elon
When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even
Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel
When an old man came in sight, gathering winter fuel.
Hither Ed and stand by me, if thou knowst it, telling
Yonder peasant who is he, where and what his dwelling;
Sire he lives a good league hence, underneath the arches
Right against the tunnel wall, by St Greta’s churches.
Bring me pumps which give out heat, bring me turbines hither
You and I will make him twine, when we force them thither;
Ed and monarch forth they went, forth they went together,
Through the rude wind’s wild lament, and the bitter weather.
In the Tesla tracks Ed slid, where the marks lay pitted,
Ice churned up the very clod, which the town had gritted;
Therefore leaders all be sure, wealth or rank possessing
Ye who now will stuff the old, shall yourselves find stressing.’
I Brambles
Cumberland
Reform and Conservative future
Dear Editor,
It seems to me there are five possibilities:
1. Reform extinguishes the Conservative Party.
2. The Conservative Party recover and see off Reform, who become just a protest party.
3. Reform and the Conservative Party remain neck-and-neck, thus splitting the vote and allowing Labour or a left coalition to continue in office.
4. Reform and the Conservative Party make an electoral pact. But this can only be an unhappy arrangement; antagonism and bitterness prevail.
5. Reform and the Conservative Party merge to produce the Reformed Conservative Party.
Which is the best of these options?
I think all sensible people can agree option 3, keeping Labour is power, is the least attractive result.
Whilst many of us would indeed welcome the demise of the Conservative Party it is obvious that they still have wide support, their turnout in the last election was still 6.9million despite an appalling record in office. Can Reform attract voters in sufficient numbers to quash the Conservative Party?
If not, Reform and the Conservatives will continue to divide the overall support for the right of center, unless some accommodation is reached. An electoral pact is fraught with difficulties. It is very unclear whether Reform voters would turn out to support a Conservative or Conservative voters would turn out for a local Reform candidate. Even if they did, a resulting Parliament could consist of a roughly matching number of MPs from the two parties. This would be highly unpromising, whilst there may be some willingness to cooperate, it would be a very hostile coalition, leading to inertia through endless squabbles.
So how about a full merger? Not going to be very popular from either side and the electorate are hardly going to get over-excited in what would appear to be a marriage of convenience, without principle, to get elected.It’s a rather grim outlook unless there is another option.
Robert Worms
Devon
