17 January 2019 Gilts and Bullion A letter to the Editors Dear Sir As most bullion depositories offer the facility of lending out existing holdings to speculators in return for a fixed/interest charge payable to the bullion owner, Gold need no longer be a non yielding asset class. Frank’s observation about the relative good value
17 January 2019 Movies Distorting History A letter to the editors. Dear Sirs Mr Tidmarsh in last week’s edition of the Shaw Sheet reviewed “The Favourite”, the heavily advertised and widely promoted film about Queen Anne and her relationships with two ladies of her court. Not greatly cheering, Mr Tidmarsh says, but beautifully made. But
20 December 2018 Letter to the Editors Corbyn’s timing from Mark Levesley Dear Sirs Nice to see Julian Annis get impassioned by Corbynista’s slightly skewed view. I do think though that Corbynista is of the opinion that Mr Blair etc were Red Tories anyway, so the intervention is not that much of a correction, i.e.
13 December 2018 Letter to the Editors Labour and the Universities Dear Sir I foolishly read the first bit of Diary of a Corbynista and can’t let the author get away with “It is almost as if his government had not marketised education, making it a dog eat dog free for all rather than
06 December 2018 Letter to the Editors Police Tactics Dear Sir I read with interest Jack Wippell’s column on police tactics, and for the most part it is hard to disagree with the objective points that he makes. The trouble when discussing the police is that from an individual viewpoint it is hard to be
18 October 2018 Letter to the Editor Tfl as Normal from Mr Anthony Bradshaw Dear Sirs Perhaps J R Thomas has a following in the imposing offices of London Underground in St James (your article last week). Travelling on an usually chaotic system on Monday night, there came the long broadcast of services delayed
27 September 2018 Letter to the Editors Archbishop’s Speech from Anthony Bradshaw Dear Sirs John Watson’s thoughtful article on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent speech on a Christian approach to national economics matters rightly calls for courteous consideration of what Mr Welby has to say, and indeed for a wider national debate on how funding
30 August 2018 Letter to the Editor Reference to Julius Streicher Dear Sir I understand the strategy (of now quoting from sources to support his anti Israel/pro-Palestinian platform) behind the change in your diarist’s approach, and in many ways his recent diaries have been a welcome improvement on his past efforts etc…. Am I
10 May 2018 Letter to the Editor Fed up with anti-semitism? Dear Sir I flicked over and caught 5 minutes of Simon Scharma’s ‘Story of the Jews’ when he said, and I paraphrase…. that the justification for Israel is not what Hitler tried to do, but what the rest of the world failed to do
12 April 2018 Letter to the Editor Corbyn’s passover Dear Sir Celebrating Passover Seder with Jewish people is not an indication of one’s Semitic leanings (April 3rd). Just as criticism of Israel’s policy on the treatment of the Gazans is not anti semitic. It is only by adding some context that gentiles gain the same
