Our Readers Say Making justice visible
10/07/2008
Our justice system often comes in for criticism from the public and the media. We asked Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald QC to tell our readers about how justice is being done - and being seen to be done.
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Victim of the revolution
How does it feel to be in a building set on fire by chanting revolutionaries and with all the exits seemingly blocked? Thankfully few of us will ever find out. But one woman who did was Merope Coulson. In 1978, aged just 22 she found herself posted to Tehran, a political hotspot ... little knowing that she was walking into a revolution ...
Hands up for naturists
Reading the article on The Strange World of Meetings" I was reminded that many years ago, before all the skin cancer scares started, I used to belong to a naturist club ...
Why is Fair Trade so expensive?
I appreciate that sometimes the "little man" at the source of our supply chain is often inadequately paid and therefore I am basically in agreement with the idea of goods being "Fairly Traded". However, I think that it is important that the transaction is fair to me as well.
Councils and their pound of flesh
On Monday 14th July at 9.30am, Mr Philip McGrevey will be attending the Newton Abbot Magistrates' Court, trying to get recognition of the plight of pensioners struggling to pay ouncil Tax. We would ask for Mature Times readers’ support since we do not want a repetition of what happened in Somerset where a pensioner was driven to take his own life because of the pressures he was under.
New Labour? Baah!
This government promised us a fair pension and the end of means-tested benefits. They lied.
Gurkha treatment is a bloody disgrace
Treating the Gurkhas with such contempt is a bloody disgrace and I do not apologise for the rhetoric. The lunatics are definitely running the asylum.
Hi-de-hi? Great fun!
I refer to Jim Tilley's email about the old Butlin's style holidays (see link below). I went on four Holiday Camp holidays during the years 61-67 with my mate Andy and his Mum & Dad; I was 17 in 1961, and I remember those holidays as some of the best ever.
Let's do away with postcode lottery healthcare
All residents in the United Kingdom should have equal access to life saving drugs, where ever they live in the United Kingdom, and what ever there income.
A petition has now been started on the Prime Ministers web site at the link below for anyone to view and sign.
"Cross-border" fiasco on the buses
As a 'Free Welsh Bus Pass' holder I recently watched with interest what I can only describe as a fiasco on a recent trip from Chepstow to Newport.
Serving in the RAF in Germany
I was never quite sure how this motley collection of German-built Magirus lorries would help us win the war against the Eastern Bloc’s tanks, but mine was not to reason why... Reader Colin Noad recalls his years serving in the RAF
You're right: pensioners face mountain of debt
The National Pensioners' Convention interpretation of the Scottish Widows survey that "one in three can't afford to save for retirement" will surely become more apparent as the credit crunch continues. Your article elsewhere about those "closer to retirement" being deeper in mortgage debt is also alarming.
Excise duty changes will penalise automatic drivers
I would like to bring to the attention of your readers some of the implications of the changes in Vehicle Excise Duty proposed for next year relating to cars from 2001 onwards with automatic transmissions.
You're right - hospital parking charges are a disgrace
Hospital parking is indeed a mess as suggested by your readers, and steeped in bureaucracy and hypocrisy.
The strange world of meetings
Imagine what it would be like to be propelled into another dimension. A peculiar, almost magical, place with strange rituals that warp the known conventions of space and time. You don’t have to go to outer space, says Martin Worth: just volunteer to serve on a committee!
