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Thomas Mathew writes: One of our readers, Bill, has sent us a piece, accompanying it with a health warning: ‘fraid you’ll have to be British to get the value of it – sorry.’ Having glanced through the article we realised that being not British we couldn’t understand a single word in it. But we still decided to post it and see who gets it. Bill writes: Britain’s long, national nightmare of not knowing who was going to govern them, was [...]

Thomas Mathew writes: Our regular reader, Robert, sent us a prayer that he picked up from the web. And we decided to post it. Dear Lord, I know that I haven’t talked to You that much, but this past 12 months You have taken away: my favourite actor, Patrick Swayze, my favourite actress, Farah Fawcett, my favourite musician, Michael Jackson, and my favourite salesman, Billy Mayes. I just wanted to let You know that my favourite politicians are Gordon Brown [...]

Mansoor H. Khan writes, in response to our article on banking: The core problem of the banking system in the United States (and maybe the world’s banking system as a whole) is not liquidity but insolvency. The liabilities of the U.S. banking sector exceeds the value of its assets. The issue is not only the toxic assets (toxic mortgage backed securities, toxic commercial real estate loans, sub-prime mortgages, alt-A loans, adjustable loans likely to go bust, increase in prime mortgage [...]

Today we post a comment to Martin McCauley’s article Global Warming: It’s A Myth by one of our readers, Chuck D. We thought it might interest some people. Chuck D writes: This is an exercise for the two days that I been investigating the findings regarding Global Warming. Prior to this, I was also assigned to work with my group in EE183-Engineering Ethics to research on solutions that mitigate and counter Global Warming. I assumed the position of verifying if [...]

Today we are posting a comment by one of our readers, Chris Poston, who has written to us in response to our article called, I Will Never Again Buy Anything At Boots The Chemist. Ever. We will send Chris a voucher to the value of £20 which can be used in the chemist Bliss, once he sends us his address as comment to the recent announcement to readers. Chris writes: I have just returned from a four day break mear [...]

Gren-Hilda Duval de Villeneuve writes: Today, in South Africa, we have a public holiday, and notwithstanding the fact that we have far too many of them for our fragile economy to handle, it is a glorious day! It is a winter’s day that would fool you into thinking it was midsummer, and the sun is heavenly on bare skin that has been oppressed by many layers of clothing for too long. Bare feet shiver in delight with the energy of [...]

We have received a passionate comment to our article on charity from one of readers in South Africa and we decided to post it as a separate piece. Here it is: Maybe you have opened a floodgate, but here goes. Your discussion on charity had me thinking how awful it is that we are so scared of getting personally involved, and the worst thing is that we are right to be cautious. I do not give money, unless I know [...]

We have received quite a few comments on our piece Jacob Zuma Is Zooming Into The Presidency Of South Africa. Is This A Good Thing. Thecave writes: ‘I’m a South African going to the polls today. Your article gives a fair appraisal of where South Africa is at. The one consolation for having an uneducated, unwise, backward man of dubious morality in the presidency is that the last guy was so bad, it’s hard to imagine Zuma being worse. Thabo [...]

We have received loads of comments in the past several days. Must be something in air. But we are always grateful to people who write to us, even if they disagree strongly with what we say.In response to our piece, Jacob Zuma Is Zooming Into The Presidency of South Africa. Is It A Good Thing?, Elana sent us a passionate response. She writes: ‘No, I don’t think that Zuma should be President of South Africa. He is not recognising important [...]