NHS heroes SIR – When will the wonderful, hard-working people who keep the NHS functioning on a daily basis get the recognition they deserve? The description of the NHS as an “enemy” of British patients (Comment, April 10) must be so demoralising for those who work tirelessly under dreadful pressures. …
Read More »Royal Mail’s failure to deliver letters on time is a danger to public health
SIR – I received an NHS letter postmarked February 9 at 12.30pm on February 16. My X-ray appointment was for 3pm. Thankfully I was able to attend. Had the appointment been sooner, it would have been another one missed. Catherine Pepinster (Comment, April 4) is right that Royal Mail holds …
Read More »Letters: The Prime Minister has given disgruntled Conservatives a little hope
Royal Mail is a national disgrace. Margaret Wilson Ferndown, Dorset. Letters to the Editor. We accept letters by email and … Source link
Read More »The Government needs to find the courage to scrap HS2 altogether
SIR – You report (September 15) that the northern leg of HS2 “may be axed to save £35 billion”. It is time our politicians woke up and cancelled the whole sorry enterprise. Vast amounts of money have been spent, without any accountability – and for what? Charles PenfoldUlverston, Cumbria SIR – …
Read More »Royal Mail’s Christmas penny-pinching will drive even more customers away
SIR – I do wonder about the people running Royal Mail, and what business acumen they demonstrated to secure their roles (“Royal Mail adds Christmas and net zero surcharge to deliveries”, report, September 15). The company is clearly struggling amid the headwinds created by electronic communications and inflation. Sadly, however, …
Read More »A witness to local authorities’ wilful wastefulness and procrastination
SIR – Isabel Oakeshott is lucky that she has only been waiting a year for a local road to be fixed (“Feckless councils are ripping taxpayers off”, Comment, September 4). In August 2020 we asked the authorities in Suffolk to install about 35 yards of double-yellow lines in a stretch of …
Read More »A cross-party effort is required to tackle the growing concrete crisis
SIR – The hysterical faux outrage of opposition politicians about the school concrete crisis would be laughable if the subject were not so serious. The reality is that national and local politicians of all parties have for decades endorsed tender outcomes at local levels for a wide variety of public-sector …
Read More »Bereft of ideas, the entire political class is trapped in a cycle of tax and spend
SIR – Unfortunately I don’t believe Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, when she declares there would be no new wealth taxes under a Labour government (Interview, August 27). This is not because I think she might be lying. I am sure she understands that increasing taxes is a barrier to …
Read More »For all the Tories’ criticism of Ulez, the Government has once again failed to act
SIR – The expansion of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) to all London boroughs is imminent. The Tories have alleged that Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, made “false” and “dishonest” claims to the London Assembly over the scheme’s consultation. Furthermore, his office funded scientists who published studies on Ulez’s …
Read More »By focusing on ‘woke’ issues, the Church of England is failing its flock
SIR – Church of England congregations are dwindling, and have been for years, yet Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is more concerned with “trans” issues (Letters, July 8), and Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, is suggesting that we shouldn’t use the phrase “Our Father” in the Lord’s Prayer …
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