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Wednesday, 16th April 2008

Spectator readers respond to recent articles

T5 fiasco

Sir: I read with disbelief the profile by Judi Bevan of BAA chairman Sir Nigel Rudd (‘Facing the flak at Terminal 5’, 12 April). How can he say of Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways, and I quote, that he has nothing but praise for him. ‘I really admired the way Willie took responsibility for the problems and showed true leadership.’

To lavish this kind of praise on someone who admits responsibility for the incompetent fiasco that was the opening of Terminal 5, the full effects of which are yet to be felt, shows a breathtaking naivety. Where does Sir Nigel think the buck really stops?

Alan Irvine
London NW8

Life as we know it

Sir: I read The Spectator from cover to cover and enjoy it very much. However, the only thing I identify with is the Low Life column. So what on earth are you doing sending Jeremy Clarke to Guyana? And now I read that he has a car with three lights in it and they all apparently work. This isn’t Low Life as I know it and my world is falling apart.

Olga Danes-Volkov
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M Deacon

April 17th, 2008 8:32am

Two points from his letter on Mosley for Eric Watson to consider:

Would England now be a better or worse place for the English if non - white immigration had been very substantially less?

Would the countries from where the immigrants came not be a lot better off if these immigrants had been given the opportunities of bettering themselves in their own countries?

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Glasgow East is Brown’s dirty little secret: a hideous, costly social experiment gone wrong

Fraser Nelson

Glasgow East symbolises — as few other places in Britain can — the fact that the problem Labour faces is not just lack of leadership but lack of mission. What is to be seen in this constituency encapsulates and dramatises Labour’s abject failures to comprehend, let alone tackle, the nature of the poverty which grips our council estates.
For all the latest on the Glasgow East by-election, visit Coffee House