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Actually I send more letters in than get printed. I wrote to them having a go at them for not printing more readers' letters because they always pride themselves on their relationship with their readers. The most prolific is Keith Flett, who I believe is a Labour councillor in Tottenham, who gets ...

He's done it again! Another letter today (9 May) in the Guardian and it's my now signature theme challenging the received wisdom that small changes in the Bank of England base rate make much difference to the economy. This all came about originally with Thatcher and Milton Friedman's ideas about the ...

Much has happened since 2011 when this thread was first posted. But my immediate reaction would be not: "Do you want to get into politics?" but "What do you believe in?"

Harold Wilson once famously said that the Labour party was a crusade or it was nothing. Your thread seems to be putting things in ...

Religious faith cropped up a few weeks ago when the FT Weekend columnist Camilla Cavendish revealed that her godfather Brian Magee took to believing in God later in his life.
Magee of course was an Old Blue and a well-known author, philosopher and BBC man, so I emailed her and told her that I had ...

Louis Theroux's BBC-2 TV doc tonight on the Israeli settler movement was a good example of blind biblical faith being pressed into service in what is essentially a land grab.

I suppose my scepticism derives from my own very firmly held atheism. As I understand it, a theist is someone who believes in a God that not only created the world but is still up there pulling the strings (and having a good laugh if he had anything to do with Donald Trump's election victories). As ...

Do Philosophy and Theology actually go together?

Yes, it is a rather surprising view. It might be because he felt that the EU had gone too far into neoliberal cliche: free markets, free movement of finance, free movement of people, privatisation of essential utilities, too strict fiscal policy (promoted particularly by Germany). But of course it ...

Holland has surfaced elsewhere on this site regarding his time at CH but when I Googled him I found the following: "Few living figures can match Stuart Holland's range of experience and insight into both British and European politics."

He was my generation although a little older, and apart from ...

So no response to my points about investing. There must be someone out there who's made a killing by some means or other. The only reason that I mention the subject is because my move a couple of years ago from a house in Gravesend to a modest retirement flat near Brighton (complete with sea view ...

After a long layoff he's back again in the Grauniad (4 March). This time I'm protesting about City attempts to try and wean Cash Isa holders (of which I'm one) off their chosen investment instruments and onto British-based equity plans. I make the point that we've been here before when Thatcher and ...

Looking at these pictures again I think I was hard in a previous post on poor old Brangwyn about them not being colourful enough. It may be that my old place in chapel was opposite the less colourful works. Many do indeed have the lovely blues, purples and ochres that you can find in his other work ...

So how much does go on in day schools? The Independent Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse is in no doubt. Summarising its findings it said: "Children in residential schools are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse as a result of their isolation from their families and carers and the involvement of ...

When in Prep B I don't recall our letters being read. Which I suppose was quite generous of Mr Pink who might well have discovered someone writing: "Dear Mum and Dad, Mr Pink tried to put his hand up my shorts yesterday". In the end no-one divulged such contentious information until Summer term 1955 ...

There's an interesting twist on this brushing-it-under-the-carpet business in Robert Verkaik's book 'Posh Boys'. But in this case it comes from the parents. In the 1990s Hampshire Constabulary were investigating abuse at a prep school in Dorset but were hampered by parents of the victims. Ex-chief ...