Letters

Recent Letters

Letters: Blair's gift wasn't remorse

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

Despite suggestions to the contrary, it is rather doubtful that Tony Blair has decided to donate the earnings from his book to appease his "guilty conscience". As we saw recently at the Chilcot inquiry, he has expressed no regret for joining Bush and Cheney in invading Iraq, and equally he has given no indication that he feels any remorse for the uncounted death-toll and wanton destruction of Iraq as a direct result of his participation in "removing Saddam Hussein".

Letters: No profit in house prices

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

As a "baby boomer" who bought his first house in 1971, it has been obvious to me throughout this period that rising property prices have not, on the whole, done property-owners any real favours, however pleasant the resultant "feelgood" factor.

Letters: The HS2 project

Monday, 16 August 2010

Time to rethink the HS2 project

IoS letters, emails & online postings (15 August 2010)

Sunday, 15 August 2010

Thank you, Janet Street-Porter, for sticking the knife into Naomi Campbell over her disgusting and disrespectful behaviour in court the other day (Editor-at-Large, 8 August). Had any normal person behaved in such a manner they would probably have been held in contempt. I'm sure all those in Africa who have had their limbs hacked off found it rather "inconvenient" as well. May I suggest that she takes some of her vast fortune and buys some lessons in basic manners, which she seems to be devoid of. I hope other people put the boot in as well, so that she might feel some shame in her actions. No doubt she will hide behind her legal team and will carry on with "her life" unconcerned.

Letters: Flooding in Pakistan

Saturday, 14 August 2010

Arabs should help Pakistan

Letters: Julie Burchill needs humility

Friday, 13 August 2010

I feel that Julie Burchill needs to develop humility before she accuses anyone who is anti-war of being a coward (11 August). It would help immeasurably if she was to experience the effects of war first-hand rather than through a mix of media misrepresentation and government spin.

Letters: Council houses can make money

Thursday, 12 August 2010

Ever since David Cameron floated his naïve suggestion that council tenants should not have security of tenure, I have been frustrated by the apparent lack of factual information available to those who are making the loudest comments.

Letters: The victims of drink-driving

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Like Mary Ann Sieghart (Opinion, 9 August) I find it inconvenient to arrange travel for partying or visiting a remote pub. I have nostalgic memories from the pre-breathalyser days of determining that the driver for the homeward journey was whoever was least drunk.

Letters: Council Tenants

Monday, 9 August 2010

Council tenants under threat

IoS letters, emails & online postings (8 August 2010)

Sunday, 8 August 2010

I applaud David Cameron's professed commitment to gay equality ("A celebration – and a challenge for us all", 1 August). However, his government gives visas and work permits to Jamaican dancehall singers who advocate the murder of gay people, endorses the lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood, even if they test HIV-negative, and exempts religious organisations from aspects of the equality laws, which allows faith agencies to discriminate against lesbians and gay men. The real test for Mr Cameron is whether his government is prepared to abolish these remaining vestiges of homophobic discrimination.

Letters: The West and Pakistan

Saturday, 7 August 2010

How the West can help

Letters: Banks given too much credit

Friday, 6 August 2010

Hamish McRae extols the virtue of the City (4 August), claiming it is our biggest export industry and offsets around 50 per cent of the deficit in traded goods. There are four good reasons to challenge its true value.

Letters: Perspectives on Pakistan and Taliban

Thursday, 5 August 2010

Letters: Boomers

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Gagging of NHS doctors

Letters: Bullfighting

Tuesday, 3 August 2010

New approach to nuclear arms

Letters: Retirement cut

Monday, 2 August 2010

Retirement cut good all round

IoS letters, emails & online postings (1 August 2010)

Sunday, 1 August 2010

I can never excuse what Jon Venables and Robert Thompson did to James Bulger, but I know, having been brought up in a very abusive household, that the child I was when I was 10 is not the person I am now, and the choices I made (most of them the wrong choices) I would never make now.

Letters: The limits of multiculturalism

Saturday, 31 July 2010

A good look at our society

Letters: Perspectives on global warming

Friday, 30 July 2010

Letters: Perspectives on Gordon Brown

Thursday, 29 July 2010

Letters: Victims of war

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Letters: Big Society

Tuesday, 27 July 2010

US senators smear Scotland

Letters: State revenge

Monday, 26 July 2010

Judicial revenge a sign of failure

IoS letters, emails & online postings (25 July 2010)

Sunday, 25 July 2010

The Scottish legal system pre-dates the Act of Union; it is separate and distinct from English law ("An extremely murky business", 18 July). As such, criminals in Scotland can only be released on, for example, compassionate grounds by a Scottish minister.