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Letter of the week
Dear Editor
We live in a retirement apartment on a main road. Twice a day, one of us has to take our 6-year-old Shih Tzu dog, Bella, out for a walk.
Yesterday, Bella and I approached a gardener who was replanting one of five large stone pots and three large round tubs, maintained by the local authority. I commented that the previous plants had suffered badly from the dry weather. We crossed over and, as Bella was sniffing around a patch of grass, I was approached by a lady, who said she had often noticed us out walking. She was holding a tray with a small plant in. The gardener had told her he had one plant left over and would she like it. She said it had made her day.
We ended our walk and retraced our steps. The gardener was still planting. I told him we had just met the lady he had given the plant to, and it had made her day. His face lit up in a lovely smile.
So, no materialistic pursuit of power, riches and debauchery. No £5million jewellery, no £30,000 watch, no young footballer claiming to have had sex with over 1000 women. No strident pursuit of personal benefit and entitlement. No attacks on other people with different beliefs.
Just two strangers, a small gift received with gratitude and a bit more joy and happiness in the world.
Keith Rothwell
Big Brother is watching you
Dear Editor
Privacy is a luxury already extinct. People are not fully aware that everything they are doing online and offline can be easily watched, tracked and measured.
The records are as exhaustive as they are perpetual. High-resolution facial recognition cameras scan every corner of the public space and non-public space.
A simple stroll around a city is enough to edit a larger-than-life documentary about any particular individual. Would it be extreme to suggest the current era is, in terms of individual control and persecution, the most oppressive ever recorded in human history?
Progressively, and predictably, technology has eroded privacy into an obsolete rarity and is poised to make jails an expensive redundancy. The system requires persistent identity. Anonymity is a sworn enemy.
Gustavo Jalife
Ponzi pensions
Dear Editor
The problem with the pension system is that it is a Ponzi scheme. My father told me that fact in the 1950s, and what we are seeing now is the Ponzi scheme crashing.
The NI should be used to create a suitable pot from which pensions could be paid, the civil servants who don’t pay into schemes should be forced to, the ones who pay but such a small contribution that council tax has to compensate for the shortfall should be called to pay the full contribution, etc.
There is no easy solution, except to revamp fundamentally how pensions should be structured. The current Ponzi scheme has crashed and is moribund.
Damian Grant
The left’s tired scapegoat
Dear Editor
In the aftermath to the riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in Northern Ireland, there has been the inevitable blaming of ‘right-wing racists’ by the press and the political chattering classes. It was the same after Southport and many other places in mainland Britain over the last few months. At the root of all the unrest is that working class, white communities that have seen their lot decline, and feel increasingly marginalised by a government and society that is devoted to alien causes.
We are all constantly bombarded by propaganda and brainwashed by woke ideas: anything British is wrong. In many towns, it is apparent without any deep study to realise that a disproportionate number of crimes are committed by single male immigrants.
But every time some half-baked excuse is offered by some ‘spokesman’. The situation is aptly summed up in the last verse of G. K. Chesterton’s poem, ‘The Secret People’:
We hear men speaking for us of new laws strong and sweet,
Yet is there no man speaketh as we speak in the street.
It may be we shall rise the last as Frenchmen rose the first,
Our wrath come after Russia’s wrath and our wrath be the worst.
It may be we are meant to mark with our riot and our rest
God’s scorn for all men governing. It may be beer is best.
But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet.
Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.
James Dent
Brent Eleigh, Suffolk
Veterans on the street, immigrants in hotels
Dear Editor
In 2023, local authorities in England stated that 3,743 veterans were homeless.
The homeless veterans should be top priority for housing… but sadly, they are not.
The Labour Government is spending £4.7billion a year on housing illegals in hotels and handing out £12billion a year in benefits to foreigners.
Labour’s priorities are not the priorities of the British people.
They have lost touch with reality.
Cllr. Brian Silvester
Crewe
The heavy price of wind
Dear Editor
According to an article The Scotsman on June 6 by Katharine Hay – ‘Big turn off: £500m windfarm bill for creaking grid’ – some £518million has been paid out to wind turbine owners so far this year to turn off their turbines, since the UK grid either could not cope or the electricity was not required. It is a practice known as ‘constraint payments’, where turbines are switched off to help balance the grid. The cost for Britain was £252million just for the first two months of 2025, and up significantly on the previous year.
In 2024, these payments totalled £1.5billion and are estimated to be £1.8billion for 2025. Guess who pays the £4.3m per day, or about £178,000 an hour, that this comes to? Ultimately, us through our energy bills, of course.
So, why are our politicians allowing the developers to erect their turbines when the infrastructure is not there to deliver the electricity? Octopus Energy estimates that, by 2030, these payments could be adding £6billion a year to consumers’ bills.
Developers should immediately be told that, if they build their turbines before the infrastructure is ready to accommodate their electricity, they will not be paid. Politicians have lost all sense of reality as they chase the impossible dream of Net Zero 2050 regardless of the cost.
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
