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Letter of the week
Dear Editor
I just read Jane Wills’ TCW article on the epidemic of SEND and autism. The author mentioned how autism in children was virtually unknown less than fifty years ago and things of the past were no more. (So) I took some photos to share with you of a wildflower meadow less than a couple of miles from where I live. Enjoy!
Roger Cole
Norfolk
Deathmongers in Parliament
Dear Editor
It should now be considered that we have in Westminster the most despicable (with honourable exceptions) bunch of MPs in modern history.
The vote on abortion prosecutions and assisted dying, along with their performance during the alleged pandemic, have proven to me that UK politicians are a danger to the British public’s health and wellbeing.
Evidence from Canada and New Zealand, amongst other countries, has proven that however legislation is written, death will result from those who push and subvert protections.
Why are they so desperate to end life?
Larry Wilcox
COP30 – CO2’s best friend
Dear Editor
COP30 will be held in Brazil from November 10-21, 2025. The previous twenty-nine COPs have achieved very little. Correction, make that ‘achieved nothing’. COP29 in Baku Azerbaijan in 2024 attracted 54,148 participants, 644 private jets and thousands of scheduled flights. Add on the limousines and other transport, and the greenhouse gas tally would be eye watering. Why have there been no figures released showing the additional greenhouse gases that these twenty-nine COP conferences created and how each attendee and country recouped their COP emissions? We all know the answer to that: ‘Don’t do as we do, do as we tell you.’ Countries will continue harvest and use fossil fuels, and the COP30 delegates will claim they are saving the planet as they talk, talk, talk and enjoy the finest Brazilian steaks – at taxpayers’ expense.
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
Politics from the pulpit
Dear Editor
Over the years, I have had to endure mentions of covid, various wars, and even that of Brexit in church by priests who want to ‘offer guidance’ through prayer. Quite wrong bringing politics to Mass.
I wonder whether they’ll mention abortion and assisted dying this weekend?
I bet they won’t.
Bill Kenwright
London
Grooming gangs – a horror of the past, present, and future
Dear Editor
You are a hero of the first water. I salute you.
I remember, in Watford back in the 1970s, having Pakistani men approach me as I walked home from school in my school uniform. They didn’t (yet) speak English, so would hold out a fiver in a brown envelope. It felt degrading and vile, and I would wonder what it was about me that had given them the idea that I might accept their ‘invitation’. I never asked my classmates if anyone else had similar experiences but, looking back, I assume they did. This has been going on since Muslim populations arrived here.
It occurs to me that the reason they target girls in school uniform is because it is a reliable cultural indicator. If you’re not sure of how a culture operates – because, for example, you’ve recently arrived – school uniform is a good marker for both age and status. It signals unmarried, therefore sexually available, and not yet allocated. That’s why they deliberately chose to approach schoolgirls on the way home from school.
We must never assume this behaviour has stopped. Why would it? People (including yourself) are referring to grooming gangs in the past tense, but it’s impossible that they would have stopped, or will stop. Ask non-Muslims in Pakistan or Bangladesh or India, or anywhere else. It is a regular experience for non-Muslims in countries with Muslim populations. It is a Muslim behaviour based on the concept of ‘those your right hand possesses’, i.e. sex slaves (or, as Shamima Begum corrected, ‘They’re not sex slaves: they’re just slaves people can have sex with.’)
Raja Miah is the only Muslim I am aware of who has publicly stood up against this. He courageously persists in exposing abuse.
We need to keep praying and keep working. Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help you in this fight (other than donating, which I will).
Sarah
The necessity of accountability and change
Dear Editor
Most welcome a public inquiry into the rape and sexual exploitation of mostly white underage girls by mainly Pakistani ‘grooming gangs’, but it will not be enough to resolve this horrible scandal.
The vile crimes occurred over decades in town and cities throughout the country, yielding tens of thousands of victims. Such was the scale that they challenge the fundamental assumption of our society that the differences between people of every culture in Britain are superficial and that we all have broadly similar moral compasses. For at least some men of one heritage, that was demonstrably untrue.
To put this behind us as a nation, the political and religious leaders of our country’s Pakistani communities have to engage with the issue, just as the Germans had to atone for the crimes of the Second World War.
They have to ask themselves what it is in their culture that has led some men of Pakistani heritage to commit these vile crimes, when other Muslims and other South Asians have not. They have to work to bring the rest of the perpetrators to justice. Vitally, they have to reform their culture so that it does not happen again.
Only then will we all be able to put these monstrous crimes behind us, and move forward together.
Otto Inglis
Fife
Crewe’s white elephant
Dear Editor
Crewe’s white elephant £11million multi-storey car park is featured in the Daily Telegraph.
From day one, #CreweFirst has said that this blot on the landscape would be forever a monument to the stupidity of Crewe’s Labour Councillors, who pushed it through despite the opposition of local people.
There was never any justification for it. There were always plenty of empty parking spaces in the dying town centre before the multi-storey was built.
And to say it was built because HS2 might come to town is entirely spurious. The multi-storey car park is over a mile from the Rail Station.
The Labour Councillors now have a big financial problem on their hands. If it stays open, the loss-making car park will be a constant drain on the council’s near-bankrupt resources.
What alternative use could it be used for? Or will it just be demolished, like so much has sadly been in Crewe? At least in this case, there would be absolutely nobody campaigning to save it from the bulldozer.
Cllr Brian Silvester
Crewe First, Putting People Before Politics
