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Letter to The Times
29th February 2012
Darling Miss Vine,
I know that logic is not your strong point, but, nevertheless, I would like to suggest to you some reasons why the Danish Prime Minister is talking nonsense.  First of all, it must be remembered that whatever one thinks of childcare, it is very expensive.  The Scandinavian states [...]

Letter to The Faily Telegraph
28th February 2012
Dear Mr Sparrow,
With reference to your letter in the Telegraph today, the reason that homosexuals should not “marry” is that it rubbishes the serious sacrament of marriage.  If a man falls in love with his donkey, and wishes to marry it, would you say this shows that we are [...]

Letter to The Daily Telegraph
27th February 2012
Dear Sir,
In her defence of homosexual marriage, the Minister Lynne Featherstone states that marriage is owned neither by the state nor by the church, but by the people.  This statement cannot be contradicted.  Marriage has existed for thousands of years, long before the Christian Church was established.  During those [...]

Letter to the Financial Times
24th February 2012
Dear Sir,
In your letters today, your correspondent, Michael Hutchings, says “Not only is presence on boards important, women must be given an equal voice”.   Clearly, Mr Hutchings is not familiar with the New Testament.
In the First Epistle from St Paul to Timothy, St Paul says “But I suffer not [...]

Letter to The Times
21st February 2012
Dear Miss Turner,
In your column last weekend, you attacked “workfare”.  How one views workfare depends on how one views the “benefits” that the government pays to the unemployed.  If one thinks that these benefits are a “right”, then one can argue that workfare makes people work for nothing, as you [...]

Letter to The Daily Telegraph
21st February 2012
Dear Sir,
With reference to your letter in the Telegraph today, you will, perhaps, be surprised to hear that in the table ranking European countries by percentage of GDP paid in tax, Greece is in the middle of the table.  In other words, the Greeks pay in tax roughly what [...]

Letter to The Times
20th February 2012
Dear Madam,
With reference to your letter in the Times last week, religion does not consist of a general feeling of “love” to all mankind.  Religion consists of dogma, and that dogma is the difference between one religion and another.  If you do not accept the dogma, then you are not [...]

Letter to the Financial Times
17th February 2012
Dear Sir,
In your front page article today on Greece, you refer to Pasok as a “centre-left” party.  This is quite inaccurate.  Pasok was founded by Andreas Papandreou in the late 1970s as a strongly Socialist party, which it has always remained.  Its Socialist policies are largely responsible for Greece’s [...]

Letter to Stephen O’Brien MP
13th February 2012
Dear Sir,
With reference to your recent letter in the press on the subject of Aid to India.  I must bring to your attention, with great respect, that you ignore the main point.  No one doubts our good intentions. The problem  is the fact that we do not have the [...]

Letter to The Sunday Telegraph
13th February 2012
Dear Miss Jacobs,
May I congratulate you on your letter to the Telegraph on the subject of the ordination of women.  I would like to bring to your attention something which is never ever mentioned.  Those who support the ordination of women, try to give the impression that they are [...]