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The Church of England must be robust with its snowflake congregants
Sit the snowflakes down Sir: I was surprised to read Theo Hobson’s article about ‘snowflake’ Christians in the C of…
Letters: Why I’ll never fly ‘puerile’ Virgin again
For the many not the few Sir: As is clear from the last paragraph of your leading article (7 April), the…
Letters: the very belief that poorer pupils do less well is what limits them
Self-limiting beliefs Sir: As someone who spent much of his working life teaching at Eton and Harrow, it was amusing…
Letters: there are better alternatives to antidepressants
The antidepressants con Sir: Congratulations to Angela Patmore for exposing the many troubling aspects of the escalating use of antidepressants…
Australian letters
Dark days Sir: David Dilley (Letters, 17 March) suggests ‘co-operation between local communities and enlightened landowners’ might assist in the…
Increasing NI contributions would burden those who can least afford it
Reform National Insurance Sir: One objection to an increase in National Insurance contributions to rescue the NHS is that it…
Australian letters
Rocky road Sir: Piers Ackerman is either indulging in a piece of tabloid provocation or he is on the rocky…
Sorry Rod Liddle, we may not want more immigrants but we still need them
Growing our own Sir: Rod Liddle is clearly right that ‘the people of Europe do not want any more immigration…
Letters: pipeline politics, non-boozy drinks and a defence of Sunderland
Pipeline politics Sir: In his article ‘Putin’s gamble’ (3 March), Paul Wood quite rightly mentions that one of the key reasons…
Australian letters
The point of Cory? Sir: I am a paid up member of the Australian Conservatives. Sadly, I suspect the good…
Letters: It pains me to admit it, but Corbyn represents the zeitgeist
Corbyn and the zeitgeist Sir: Your leading article is right about university tuition fees and the fruitlessness of Tory half-measures,…
Australian letters
Sterner stuff Sir: I refer to Mark Higgie’s article in The Spectator Australia last week. I served with DFAT for…
Letters: charities should be entirely independent of government funding
How to save charities Sir: The sexual abuse scandal is merely one aspect of the morally compromised status of large…
Australian letters
Love is love Sir: What total hypocrisy: the words attacking Barnaby Joyce from the same people who argued we must…
Letters: the militant suffragettes set back their own cause
Suffragette setbacks Sir: Jane Ridley (‘Women on the warpath’, Books, 10 February) claims that Millicent Fawcett and her suffragists had ‘got nowhere’…
Letters: Leave Theresa May alone – she’s doing her best
Stop knocking May Sir: I find this knocking of Theresa May increasingly depressing (‘Theresa’s choice’, 3 February). She has a terrible job…
Letters: Repression is creeping back into Eastern Europe
Creeping repression Sir: John O’Sullivan is correct to argue that Europe’s centrist establishment often ‘does not really accept the right…
Australian letters
Onward Christian soldiers? Sir: Hal Colebatch contemplates the revival of the religious military orders to protect Christianity from the attacks…
We need a root-and-branch rethink on plastic packaging
Reasons to use less plastic Sir: Yes, packaging from petrochemicals is bad, but what if we set out to use…
Letters: the truth about UK farming by Sir James Dyson
Investing in farming Sir: Martin Vander Weyer (Any other business, 13 January) says, unhelpfully and inaccurately, that subsidies ‘absurdly’ favour…
Australian letters
Dark ages revisited? Sir: The latest, frenzied, hysterical and vitriolic attack on President Trump by the media, over his “alleged”…
Letters: will longer lifespans lead to depleted pension pots?
Long lives and pension pots Sir: Jon Moynihan is too optimistic about the prospects for further increasing life expectancy, and…
Australian letters
Twelve bad men Sir: In his article ‘Guilty’, it appears that the cases quoted by Andrew Urban were heard by…
Letters: No, the Church of England is not planning an evangelical takeover
A church for all people Sir: I enjoyed reading Ysenda Maxtone Graham’s account of debates in the Church of England…
Letters: Returning jihadis, the Labour abyss and why Stokes can’t play
Returning jihadis Sir: Coping with those who pose a terrorist threat to the UK but cannot be prosecuted for a…
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