Hinterfragen: asking questions.

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 8th September 2024 ### * Key people: John Naughton * Dear Editor, A recent item in Germany’s “Tagesschau” (mainstream news, link below) reminded me of John Naughton’s article on delivery drones, “technological determinism” and our acquiescence to “new” (The Observer, 10th August 2024, link below) …  It looks like…

### Reader’s letter to The Guardian, 3rd September 2024 ###** Key People: Jennifer Rankin, Valerie Hayer, Mattia Bagherini, Maurice Stierl, Tarik Abou-chadi ** Dear Editor, I read Jennifer Rankin’s article (The Guardian, 3rd September 2024, link below) on the AfD’s success, the “pressure on a fragmented EU” and “The European Project” and, unfortunately have to…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 2nd September 2024 ### Dear Editor, So Germany is in upheaval about the gains of the AfD (and BSW). I live in Cologne so did not vote in either of the elections on Sunday. But, in both prior coverage and in the current postmortem, there are two enormous elephants…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 31st August 2024 ### Dear Editor, With the elections in Thuringia tomorrow, Germany certainly has moved into a very weird place … All this morning we have been listening to WDR5, a mainstream radio-station, with the news seemingly “stuck on repeat” on a number of “Standard Hobby-Horses”: That is…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 28th August 2024 ###* Key players: British Fashion Council, Climate Ready Index, Collective Fashion Justice, Fashion Revolution, Emma Håkansson, Aja Barber, Hannah Rochell, Lauren Bravo, * Dear Editor, I read Rebecca Cope’s article on CO2 emissions in the fashion industry (The Guardian, 28th August 2024, link below) and strongly…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 27th August 2024 ### Dear Editor, I read your report on Keir Starmer’s move to improve relations with Europe (The Guardian, 27th August 2024, link below) which includes visits to Paris and to Germany. Here I agree that good relations with Europe are certainly desirable but worry that maybe…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 27th August 2024 ###* Key Players: Matthew Taylor, Jason Hickel, Mariana Hanbury-Lemos, Progressive Econcomy Forum, Open Democracy, Adam Khan, Isabelle Anguelovski * Dear Editor, I strongly agree with the sentiments in Matthew Taylor’s article on “Degrowth” (The Guardian, 27th August 2024, link below) but would add a couple of…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 24th June 2024 ### Dear Editor, I was reflecting on Matthew Weaver’s recent article on the horrific e-bike battery-fire which killed Scott Peden’s family and was reminded of a recent train-journey that I took into Waterloo Station … At Farnborough, as we boarded the train, we saw signs that…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 20th June 2024 ### Dear Editor, I sort of agreed with Tad DeLay’s assessment of climate denial (article by Maya Goodfellow, The Guardian, 20th June 2024, link below) and regularly ask myself “Who is most mad?”. Is it … a.) the climate denier? or b.) the person who accepts…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 21st June 2024 ### Dear Editor, I was interested by Jonathan Jone’s article on the Henry Moore sketches of life during The Blitz (The Guardian, 21st June 2024, link below). I felt the sketches to be eerie and quietly horrific. Indeed it is certainly horrific to be under bombardment…