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Your support makes all the difference.I must offer my total solidarity to Stephen Hawking in his involvement in a proposed lawsuit over more creeping privatisation of the NHS. Not content with the Brexit lies, the usual suspects now want to reduce funding by involving more private companies to organise services with doubtless less staff!
ACOs, or accountable care services, will just turn out to be another misnomer – there will be no accountability, as has happened often before. Sadly this will not be the last battle to be fought.
Robert Boston
Kingshill
There’s something to Donald Tusk’s Sedaka quote
In acknowledging that the EU-UK agreement on Brexit was a “personal success” for Theresa May, EU President Donald Tusk quoted Neil Sedaka in saying: “Breaking up is hard to do”.
Was President Tusk sending a coded message?
Though not noted as a political analyst, Sedaka’s heartbreaking ballad concludes: “Come on baby, let’s start anew.”
Dr John Doherty
Vienna
Nothing has changed
Is it just me being silly to hope that one day I might hear a British politician actually say something that could be regarded as being close to the truth? All I can see is that we’ve agreed to pay a staggering sum of money to pretend nothing will really change. This is what passes for leadership of the country!
Steve Mumby
Bournemouth
IDS needs to come back to reality
According to Iain Duncan Smith, the EU is running scared and is desperate for a free trade deal with the UK. Another example of the terrible delusions of the Brexiteers. The EU didn’t want the negotiations to break down because it didn’t want to prompt the ensuing chaos in UK politics if May was forced out of office, and also it didn’t want to be blamed by Leavers for intransigence.
This agreement answers nothing and we are not in the driving seat. Grow up, IDS.
Maurizio Moore
Brentwood
Jerusalem is not Trump’s to give
Having read the various reports of President Trump’s announcement on the city in which the American embassy in Israel should be located and then which city should be the capital of Israel, I can only conclude that the former is up to his administration to decide, meanwhile hoping that the potential consequences have been thought through.
What I am amazed at is reporting in UK newspapers that the US President has designated and “announced” that Jerusalem is the capital city of Israel. Surely such an announcement should come from the Israeli government and, hopefully for that government, with the endorsement of the government of the USA. Instead the Israeli leadership has thanked Mr Trump for his decision.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Palestine-Israel question may be, by what right does Trump decide on where the capital city of Israel, or any other country (perhaps with the exception of his own country) be located?
Roger Brice
Wilmslow
There is no such country called America
One of your recent headlines reads, “Obama invokes Hitler’s rise in stark warning to America”.
America is a continent, there is no country in the world legally named America. I am sure you meant the United States OF America, “of” meaning located in America.
Canada is in America as well – Canadians are just as much Americans as our neighbours to the south.
I pointed that out a couple of years ago to a nice Scottish lady in Scotland working as a cashier at a Tesco. At first she appeared bewildered, then the light went on. She replied, “Oh, I’ve never thought of it like that.” Most people haven’t, especially you good folks in the UK who insist on referring to the United States as America.
It’s one thing for citizens of the United States to refer to themselves as America. That’s arrogance – it excludes Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The rest of us need to apply some awareness and get it that America is a continent ranging from the northern shores of Canada to the southern tip of South America. The US is just one country in America.
To accent the point, Hawaii is a state in the United States but it’s not in America. To claim it is in America is ludicrous.
Gordon Robertson
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It is too dangerous to allow any more Oxford graduates to become PM
We are in a political mess. Should we blame our leaders? Take four of our recent prime ministers:
Thatcher: odious
Blair: self-opinionated
Cameron: shallow
May: bungling
Do they have anything in common? Why yes, they are all alumni of Oxford University. We need a Private Member’s bill in Parliament to veto any Oxford graduate becoming prime minister in, say, the next 25 years. Any takers? Perhaps I should declare that I am an alumnus of this illustrious university.
David Ashton
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