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Letter to The Times
31st October 2011
Dear Miss Purves,
Your well-intentioned article about the Catholic Church contains one “minor” error.  If one looks in the Dictionary, the definition of a “child” is a human being from birth until puberty.  After the age of puberty, one is no longer a child.  There cannot be paedophilia or child abuse [...]

Letter to the Financial Times
26th October 2011
Dear Mr Wolf,
I was most interested by your article in the Financial Times today, and your message to Mario, “Only the ECB can stop the Eurozone crises”.  You go on to ask him “to save the Eurozone” with the ECB.
What puzzles me is that the ECB has a capital [...]

Letter to Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon
25th October 2011
Dear Lord Ashdown,
What I found interesting in your article in the Times, on the subject of Europe, is that you do not seem to be aware of the basic point at issue, which is freedom.  In a recent session our Parliament passed 700 laws, which was a record.  [...]

Letter to The Times
24th October 2011
Dear Sir,
In today’s column of your Agony Aunt, Tanya Byron, there is a sentence that sums up the problems of England today.  That sentence is “No child is born bad”.  With great respect for your columnist, that sentence flies in the face of both logic and experience.  Every person in [...]

Letter to The Sunday Times
24th October 2011
Dear Sir,
Your columnist Eleanor Mills, in her column regarding marriage, does not seem to be aware that all conventions are based on facts.  The age at which one marries is based, or should be based, on the human body clock.  Women mature much more quickly than men, and age [...]

Letter to The Financial Times
4th October 2011
Dear Sir,
Your columnist, Mark Williams, states in his column today that gold has fallen more than $300 an ounce, “the largest short-term fall in more than 20 years”.  This is quite untrue.  Gold did fall more than $300, but this was only 19% from the top.  Three years ago [...]

Letter to The Times
3rd October 2011
Dear Mr Streeting,
With reference to your article in the Times today about university students, the point that you and many others do not grasp is that university education has always been only for intelligent students.  It is impossible to “broaden student access”, unless you also broaden their brains.  Whether one [...]

Letter to The Times
30th September 2011
Dear Mr Rifkind,
With reference to your article in the Times today about “Capitalism”, it is always difficult to discuss Capitalism, because no one really knows what it means.  In fact, the word was invented by Karl Marx, in order to try to trash our way of life, and yet everyone [...]

Letter to The Wall Street Journal
28th September 2011
Dear Mr Fidler,
At the end of your article today on the Eurozone, you asked a very interesting question.  “If the expansion of the EFSF depends entirely on the ECB’s balance sheet,” why not use that balance sheet to buy government bonds directly?  The answer is that the ECB’s [...]

Letter to The Times
28th September 2011
Dear Mr Finkelstein,
In your column today, you mention President Warren Harding, who you describe as an “undistinguished president”.  I would suggest, with great respect, that Mr Harding had some little known, but very competent qualities.
He inherited a mess left by the much praised Woodrow Wilson, including huge federal bureaucracies, and [...]