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Letter of the week.
Dear Editor
Your Chagos coverage prompted one question for me. Is it not colonialist to foist a small group of natives (Chagossians) onto another more powerful group (Mauritius) and tell them to lump it?
Or am I missing something here?
David Lawrenson
A hiccup for the Right, a field day for the Left
Dear Editor
This won’t be a good weekend for those on the right.
The Left will be gloating about the implosion of the brotherly bond between Elon and Trump, as well as the by-election result up north, which Labour won.
Bill Kenwright
London
How to topple a political Goliath
Dear Editor
We all read daily in the mainstream media, as well as your brilliant TCW, about the government’s actions, proposed laws, new vicious tax proposals, idiotic ideas on how to waste yet more of our taxes, and so on. Yet most of the time, we feel completely powerless to do anything about them until the next general election (which is also unlikely to change anything). Occasionally, some local person emerges as an unlikely leader and achieves a David and Goliath result, e.g. the West Dulwich Action Group, which succeeded in stopping Lambeth Council from imposing a low traffic neighbourhood on them. Unfortunately, such events are rare and usually only address local problems, and all are up against greedy and virtue-signalling councils who will readily spend ratepayers’ money hiring expensive lawyers which local protest groups can’t afford to oppose.
So, is there anything the public can do?
There is just one action which can sometimes work, but it is a numbers game and will only be successful if sufficient numbers of people take part. I refer to writing to your MP. Of course, all MPs receive hundreds of emails a week and have dedicated staff who weed out letters or emails from cranks, but such staffers will also weed out letters which they know their boss won’t want to read and those with which they may personally disagree. But if a large number of emails arrive in their inboxes on the same subject, it becomes harder to ignore the problem complained about. Moreover, there are some diligent MPs who actually take the trouble to reply.
I would encourage all readers to round up as many friends and contacts in their email address book as possible, prepare a draft protest letter (which should not be copied verbatim but slightly modified by each individual) and send it to them with the exhortations 1) to send it to their MP and 2) to spread it further to all their own email contacts. This would act like a chain letter and could conceivably result in a major impact.
David Wright
Australia
Does Miliband understand?
Dear Editor
The solar panels, which Mr Miliband wants to impose on UK households, average
The solar panels will need back up (e.g. from batteries) at a cost of >£100 per kWh. On winter days, the batteries will need to be rated for a week or two without sun.
There is an emerging shortage of lithium, due to a global demand to replace 1.5billion petrol and diesel cars with EVs and, at the present rate of mining, it will take over 100 years to meet the projected demand.
Can we assume that Mr Miliband has factored all of that into his proposed diktats? Based on experience, that seems unlikely.
Roger J Arthur
Hollybank
The mRNA vaccines are a medical plane crash
Dear Editor
I wrote previously about the tragic episode of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. To give a brief summary, this aircraft suffered two horrendous crashes: Lion Air Flight 610 in October 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in March 2019, resulting in 189 and 157 deaths respectively. Pilot error was initially blamed, while the aircraft had serious design and maintenance faults which made it impossible for the pilot to fly under certain conditions.
The Federal Aviation Authority had allowed the certification of this aircraft to be largely carried out by the manufacturers and effectively rubber stamped the results. Had it not been for the authorities in many other countries banning this machine from their airspace, who knows how much longer it would have continued to fall from the skies and how great the resulting death toll and damage to trust in air travel and the industry in general? As it was, it almost bankrupted Boeing, who, luckily for themselves, were too big to fail.
The Federal Drugs Agency would seem to be following a similar path. In 2020, they allowed mRNA injections to be given to millions. Even the damages acknowledged by this action dwarf the numbers affected by two crashed aircraft. But this time, they were ready with a plan to silence any dissent. Almost 5 years later, they not only allow the mRNA plane to keep flying, but actually have authorised a new version. The revision, unlike that of the 737 MAX, does not fix the many problems, but according to the test results, actually make them slightly worse. While the problems with the flight control system of the plane would seem to have been circumvented, if not eliminated, no such action has been, or more likely ever will be possible to fix a technology which is alien to human beings.
Our ribosomes cannot correctly translate the information encoded with N1-methylpseudouridine used to replace the natural uridine. Regardless of the message carried, the end result fails regularly.
Had Boeing produced an upgrade which was no more than pink stripes on the wings, it was unlikely to have been approved. How can it be that the ‘new’ version of the ‘mRNA’ injection has been allowed to be used?
RFK Jr is no fool. No doubt he operates under very difficult circumstances with severe limitations. For many who understand the depth of the issue, this can only be a step too far and do serious harm to his credibility. It is likely that he will be seen as the man who authorised the equivalent of an aircraft which is proven to be too dangerous to fly to carry unsuspecting passengers for years to come. At the very least, he has tumbled in my estimation.
Not only those affected by another dangerous injection will suffer. The entire medical industry finds trust at rock bottom. Even those most critical still plead for patients to seek medical help if needed. They must all accept that trust in doctors is dead, unless and until there is an industry-wide acceptance of the damage done and the lies used to cover it up. This situation was narrowly avoided by the aviation industry by somewhat belatedly and grudgingly grounding a dangerous aircraft.
Until mRNA technology is binned, medicine can never recover.
J Tumilty
Governmental forethought as substantial as a strawberry-flavoured vapour
Dear Editor
Disposable vapes are now banned. Politicians hope this will cut their use among young people. Hope? Politicians were the ones who allowed their introduction, saying that this would reduce the number of cigarette smokers, but the enticing flavours increased the number of young people getting hooked. Now, the young have the choice of reusable vapes or cigarettes. Politicians also say that this should reduce the ‘avalanche’ of litter created. For decades, mountains of cigarette butts have been discarded outside ‘bookies’ and other venues; what did politicians think these same people would do with their vapes? Now, the politicians have belatedly realised that the batteries are a fire risk and can leak harmful chemicals into the environment. If politicians had thought of a Deposit Return Scheme for vapes and put Green MSP Lorna Slater in charge, there would be far less litter.
Whoops! I just realised that there was a planned Deposit Return Scheme for plastic bottles and aluminium cans for which Lorna Slater was responsible for but was abandoned, and Biffa are suing the Scottish Government for £200million.
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
