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PUBLISHED: 08:30 14 March 2020 Readers’ letters #nocado local campaigners oppose the delivery hub being built close to Yerbury Primary school © Nicola Baird Nicola Baird N19 is a deceptive battleground, writes Nicola Baird, Islington Green. Email this article to a friend To send a link to this page you …

On a frequent basis we get ‘junk mail’, like most of us do that own a letterbox as having one does make us collectively a target for such deliveries at the best of times. Quite pointless printed material as it goes straight into the recycling bag. A regular flyer is …

The folk at Royal Mail must wince whenever Rico Back makes a delivery. There’s only ever bad news in the chief executive’s postbag. The latest warning is that a three-year turnaround plan is in danger of being blown off course. What’s more, the UK arm of the business is expected to …

A Royal Mail van drives through the Drumochter Pass in Scotland on March 11. In October, 100,000 Royal Mail staff voted to go on strike over job … Source link

I’m fairly sure my school had a motto, but I can’t remember what it was. What I can remember however, in encyclopedic detail, are the mottos of the great houses in Game of Thrones. For those with slightly less nerdy proclivities, the great houses in Game of Thrones are a …

Some elections are a clash of ideas, others a personality contest. The 2019 general election is shaping up to be a process story. Mountains of newsprint and swathes of commentary taken up with questions over the result. Will there be a hung parliament? Which parties could do deals with each …

“If you’re not outraged,” read the quote beneath the Venus symbol on my waitress’s T-shirt the other day, “you’re not paying attention.” Chance would be a fine thing.  I realise women are no longer society’s victims-in-chief – toppled, as we have been, by the trans brigade – but it’s hard …

SIR – Sherelle Jacobs (Comment, November 7) is quite right to say that Boris Johnson and the Conservatives need to gain a better understanding of working-class voters. Many are, or were, tribal Labour supporters, but that does not mean that they espouse the far-Left policies of today’s party. I spent the …

Okay, they could picket the polling stations, or call a general strike for December 12. But those two extreme options aside, it is hard to imagine the trade unions could find a more obvious way of influencing the upcoming General Election than calling a postal strike during the campaign. Potentially …

SIR – There has never been a greater opportunity to achieve a stonking Conservative majority. The Prime Minister has strained every sinew to get Brexit done and is rightly popular because of it. Add to that the people’s desire to rid those green benches of MPs who have done everything …