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Letters: Government advertisments are bad for our health
Monday, 1 March 2010
Mary Dejevsky (26 February) is right. How much longer should we have to put up with paying for posters and TV campaigns that scare and hector us on just about every aspect of our daily lives?
IoS letters, emails & online postings (28 February 2010)
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Carol Sarler has misunderstood "dressing up" ("The dressing-up box is a pretty safe place for little girls to play", 21 February). Little girls play dressing up in their mother's clothes. The shoes are too big, the dresses too long, the lipstick misapplied. It's a game that is played at home. Great fun. The problem now is that the clothes and shoes little girls are wearing are made for them – small size heeled shoes, tiny bras, satin panties and sexy logos on little T-shirts. They're little replicas of their mothers' things, and worn when they go out. A big difference.
Letters: British jobs and British workers
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Pay better wages if you want British workers
Letters: Oil development in the Falkands
Friday, 26 February 2010
Chavez attacks the rights of the Falkland islanders
Letters: Defamation laws
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Libel: burden of proof must remain on the accuser
Letters: HIV/Aids epidemic
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Drugs on their own won't solve the Aids crisis
IoS letters, emails & online postings (21 February 2010)
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Your article on the distress and mental harm caused by indefinite periods of detention for asylum-seekers, "Locked up indefinitely..." (14 February), referred to detainees as "prisoners". The paradox is that, were they serving a prison sentence, asylum-seekers would have access to a range of legal, welfare and other support services.
IoS Letters Special: Readers answer climate sceptic and former chancellor Nigel Lawson
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Nigel Lawson asserts that suspecting "wicked oil companies" of sowing disinformation "will not do". On the contrary, the report "Smoke, Mirrors, and Hot Air" in 2007, from the Union of Concerned Scientists in the US, lays out very clearly what companies such as ExxonMobil have been up to in pursuing a campaign to sow doubt about anthropogenic climate change, mirroring the Big Tobacco campaign in previous decades. He is right to say that there is "far too much at stake" to make simplistic assumptions. There is also, I suggest, too much at stake to procrastinate endlessly in the fond hope that the issue might go away, despite significant evidence to the contrary, or at least become someone else's problem.
Letters: Charlie Wilson's War
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Forgotten lessons of Charlie Wilson's Afghan war
Letters: Peace in Israel
Friday, 19 February 2010
Israel will find peace by talking, not assassination
Letters: The torture debate part 1
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Torture is an inexcusable assault on human decency
Letters: The torture debate part 2
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Torture and the 'ticking bomb' – the debate goes on
Letters: Save for the future
Monday, 15 February 2010
Save now, or our children and grandchildren will suffer
IoS letters, emails & online postings (14 February 2010)
Sunday, 14 February 2010
Your front page on the fossil fuel money funding the climate sceptics implied that ExxonMobil are the main culprits. While there is plenty of evidence to support that view, there is another side to the story. In 2006, for the first time in its long and distinguished history, the Royal Society took the unprecedented step of asking a corporation to change its behaviour; specifically to stop funding "organisations that have been misinforming the public about the science of climate change". The corporation, ExxonMobil, agreed to its request. ExxonMobil promised to stop funding climate sceptics again in 2007, and in 2008, and again in 2009. I'm sure that, if asked, it would yet again promise to stop funding sceptics. The teething troubles they seem to be having in implementing this new policy should not be allowed to cast any doubt on the sincerity of their public statements.
Letters: Terror and the birth of Israel
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Irgun and Stern terror attacks led to birth of Israel
Letters: Security and intelligence agencies
Friday, 12 February 2010
Disgraceful claim that secret services collude in torture
Letters: Somali pirates and the Chandlers
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Why it is dangerous to pay ransom to pirates
Letters: Parliamentary privilege
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Parliament must rule on MPs' privilege claim
Letters: Climate change and trust
Monday, 8 February 2010
Don't 'trust' climate scientists, just trust the evidence
IoS letters, emails & online postings (7 February 2010)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
James Coop says that by electing Labour we chose Tony Blair to make important decisions (Letters, 31 January). True, but it was not a blank cheque to disregard the UN Charter and international treaties. The destruction of a state and the killing of more than a million Iraqis is a direct result of a policy pursued by Blair and George Bush. Absence of the Security Council's consent to the attack on Iraq is a further proof that Iraq under Saddam Hussein was not a threat to the whole world. We should remember that Saddam Hussein once was a darling of the West. What changed was his refusal to continue the American agenda in the Middle East, and not the non-existent WMD.
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