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IoS letters, emails & online postings (18 April 2010)
Sunday, 18 April 2010
Mike Timms writes that "rightminded people, who would eschew duplicity in any other aspect of their lives... should withhold their votes until it [the voting system] is changed. Principled abstention is not apathy" ("Our One of the Above campaign gets your vote, 11 April). But principled or not, it will be impossible to differentiate his objection to first-past-the-post from apathy. Dr Tim Williamson would also like a form of PR. Labour has said it will have a referendum on electoral reform, while the Tories have rejected the idea. The best hope for both correspondents resides in a hung parliament, with Labour the largest party. To achieve this, where your preferred candidate has no chance of success, vote tactically for Labour. It may be a long time before such an opportunity arises again for smaller parties to exert pressure.
Letters: UK border officials
Saturday, 17 April 2010
UK border officials behave like night-club bouncers
Letters: Efficiency savings
Thursday, 15 April 2010
Efficiency savings? You really mean sacking people
Letters: Progressive Lib Dems
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
True progressives should vote Liberal Democrat
IoS letters, emails & online postings (11 April 2010)
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Dr Michael Pravica is right to say that the Catholic Church should remove its celibacy requirements, but he did not mention gay marriage (Letters, 4 April). It is highly unlikely we will ever see gay marriage among Catholic priests being permissible, given that homosexuality is regarded as a sin in the eyes of this church. However, one cannot get away from the fact that the overwhelming majority of children who have been molested and raped by priests are boys. It is safe to say that the priests who commit such depraved crimes are not only paedophiles, but are also repressed homosexuals. Marrying women and having "families of their own" would do nothing to prevent them sexually assaulting boys in future.
IoS 'One of the Above' campaign letters special
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Voting is indeed "one of the most precious freedoms we can have", but the low turnouts in recent elections have shown just how few people in this country appreciate it. Low participation diminishes our democracy, and it would be a devastating blow if the expenses scandal and general political disillusionment were to deter even more people from taking part.
Letters: University places
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Lack of a university place is no cause for despair
Letters: Fixed terms for Parliament
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
British democracy goes its own unpredictable way
Letters: The new law on prostitution
Monday, 5 April 2010
Trafficking: another bad law from a populist agenda
IoS letters, emails & online postings (4 April 2010)
Sunday, 4 April 2010
Many of the age-old but recently exposed child abuse problems associated with some Roman Catholic priests stem from the requirement that priests be celibate – "married" to the church ("Pope condemns critics over abuse scandal 'gossip'", 28 March). Yet there is nothing in the Bible explicitly stating that priests must be unmarried. Priests often act as family counsellors and spiritual advisers to aid their parishioners. Giving realistic and useful advice requires a deep understanding of the meaning of marriage and family which can be best performed by priests who are married and have families of their own.
Letters: Truancy and schooling
Thursday, 1 April 2010
When 'truancy' is the rational reaction to schooling
Letters: Stanley no monster
Monday, 29 March 2010
Stanley was no monster but a hero to the Congolese
IoS letters, emails & online postings (28 March 2010)
Sunday, 28 March 2010
It is shocking that more than 50,000 people in Britain each year are dying prematurely due to air pollution ("Britain. A breath of foul air", 21 March). You point out that one of the main causes is car pollution. One way to reduce premature deaths would be to reduce the absurd distances that people travel to work. The RAC Foundation reported in 2003 that British commuting times, at an average of 45 minutes, are the longest in Europe, and that most of these journeys are by car.
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