Hinterfragen: asking questions.

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 10th May 2024 ### … Dear Editor, I was deeply irritated by Christiana Figueres’ piece on the climate crisis (The Guardian, 9th May 2024, link below): Every year for the past fifteen years I have been picketing the delegates who attend the UN’s COP-preparatory meetings here in Bonn ……

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 13th May 2024 ### … Dear Editor, I read Kat Lay’s piece on Dame Sally Davies’ comments on the growing, and potentially catastrophic, antibiotics-resistance (AMR) (The Guardian, 13th May 2024, link below) and agree that this is truly shocking: My grandparents often talked about the scourge and danger of,…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 14th May 2024 ### … Dear Editor, I read the EU Climate Chief Wopke Hoekstra’s comments on the EU’s climate policy (article by Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, 10th May 2024, link below), including his worry that “populists” would water things down, and was rather bemused … As far as…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 17th May 2024 ### … Dear Editor, I nodded all the way through Sirin Kale’s piece on flooding driven by climate-change (The Guardian, 16th May 2024, link below) and was especially interested in her experiences in Ahrweiler: I was there about a year after the floods and was shocked…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 16th May 2024 ### … Dear Editor, I homed in on Martin Kettle’s article about democracy desperately needing a “reset” (The Guardian, 16th May 2024, link below) and was a disappointed by what the article was really about: Yes, Mr Kettle supplies a clear and informative view of the…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 16th April 2021 ### … Dear Editor, I read Jennifer Johnston’s piece on “How to live in harmony with bees” (Guardian, Australian Lifestyle, 15th April 2021, link below) and strongly agree that we need to do all we can to preserve insect (especially bee) populations. But my mind was…

## Reader’s letter to The Guardian, 15th April 2021 ### … Dear Editor, I read the disturbing report by Sirin Kale (15th April 2021, link below) of the Kenyan stowaway who fell out of a plane’s wheel-well onto a street in Clapham in 2019. That is infinitely tragic but not surprising: A few years ago…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 14th April 2021 ### … Dear Editor, I see that Microsoft has released a new “Surface Laptop” (article by Samuel Gibbs, 13th April 2021, link below) which is up to 70% faster than the previous model. So, of course, it is time to dump your old laptop and buy…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 3rd April 2021 ### … Dear Editor, Graham Readfern and Adam Morton ask whether the Australian Academy of Science is right in concluding that meeting the Paris goal (of avoiding 1.5C heating) is “virtually impossible” (The Guardian, 2nd April 2021, Link below). Unfortunately the article seems to miss the…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 21st March 2021 ### … Dear Editor, I read Damian Carrington’s piece (The Guardidan, 18th March 2021) on plastic in food and water being passed on to placentas, foetuses and babies. This is indeed very worrying. But the thing that I missed in the article was mention of “tyre-dust”:…