Letters

Recent Letters

Letters: Perspectives on Gordon Brown

Thursday, 29 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.

Letters: Education system

Saturday, 24 July 2010

How education dumbed down

Letters: Safety in the North Sea

Friday, 23 July 2010

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has, perhaps with some justification, created a feverish backlash in Brussels. A similar disaster in the North Sea could potentially destroy the Scottish fishing industry.

Letters: Perspectives on academy schools

Thursday, 22 July 2010

Letters: Big Society

Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Big Society has little chance

Letters: the burka

Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Backing for the burka

Letters: Stabilising our population

Monday, 19 July 2010

I always enjoy Dominic Lawson's regular dusting-off of his familiar anti-OPT rant ("Affluence, not control, is the answer", Comment, 13 July), uncontaminated as it always is by any reference to what we and our patrons actually say, and resounding instead with spine-chilling references to enforced abortions, coercive birth-control, extinction of the human race, compulsory euthanasia, racism etc.

IoS letters, emails & online postings (18 July 2010)

Sunday, 18 July 2010

Your story about the UK Border Agency blocking visits by children from Chernobyl to this country is just the latest example of random injustice from this out-of-control organisation ("Chernobyl's children refused entry to UK", 11 July). There seems to be no limit to the agency's powers, and it acts with the arrogance and brutality of a cross between the Gestapo, Stasi and KGB. Dawn raids on defenceless asylum-seekers, forced deportations, "removal centres" run like prisons – one wonders just what the selection process must be and what the job descriptions say.

Letters: Graduate tax

Saturday, 17 July 2010

Graduate tax deeply unfair

Letters: Perspectives on banning the burka

Friday, 16 July 2010

Letters: Perspectives on global population

Thursday, 15 July 2010

Letters: Rising world population

Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Letters: Lords and education

Tuesday, 13 July 2010

End bias in our voting system

Letters: Health policy

Monday, 12 July 2010

Keep markets out of the NHS

IoS letters, emails & online postings (11 July 2010)

Sunday, 11 July 2010

The new UN Women agency is truly something to celebrate, as gender is usually one of the first issues that gets dropped at times of economic crisis ("Women of the world, unite!", 4 July). The new agency suggests that the past few years of negotiations between UN Member States and advocacy by the international women's movement have finally paid off.

Letters: Treatment of asylum seekers

Saturday, 10 July 2010

No abuse of asylum seekers

Letters: Graduates' prospects

Friday, 9 July 2010

Letters: Tailor prison sentences to fit the person

Thursday, 8 July 2010

The main purposes of imprisonment (letters, 2 July) are punishment, deterrence and rehabilitation. What Tory hardliners and their closet colleagues in New Labour fail to understand – or wilfully ignore – is the fact that different people respond to these elements differently. For some, any kind of prison sentence is a severe punishment while others seem drawn to prison for psychological reasons – as Freud put it, they commit crimes out of a sense of guilt.