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### 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…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 25th June 2024 ### Dear Editor, I read Caroline Kimeu’s article on opposition to proposals to build a power-station on the coast near Kalifi (The Guardian, 17th June 2024, link below) and strongly agree with the arguments (environment, debt, safety, economic and technical) as to why they should not…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 1st July 2024 ### Dear Editor, I read Lisa O’Carroll’s piece on electric trucks (The Guardian, 30th June 2024, link below) and, although she sums up the current status very well (i.e. that at the moment only 300 electric trucks are registered and those are only for local deliveries),…

### Reader’s letter to The Guardian, 9th August 2024 ### Dear Editor, I read Larry Elliot’s article on the current riots in the UK (The Guardian, 8th Aug 2024, link below) and strongly agree that, as well as condemning the riots, governments (everywhere!) need to urgently look at the causes of the dissatisfaction which leads…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 22nd August 2024 ###* Key Players: Prof Sedat Gundogdu, Matthew Campen, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Kimberly White, Keith Schneider, Anna Cavazzini, * Link to original article , Link to article on microplastics Dear Editor, I found myself nodding all the way through Douglas Main’s article on microplastics in our bodies…