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| Wed 19 Jul 2017 20.09 BST | |
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| I’m pleased that John Walker has won his fight for equal pension rights for gay couples (Report, 17 July), but he is wrong that this was “the last legal differential between gay and heterosexual people”. As a heterosexual person I cannot enter a civil partnership with my partner of over 30 years. This affects his right to have the same benefits from my pension as a husband would. Let’s continue the fight for equality.Deborah DickinsonLondon | I’m pleased that John Walker has won his fight for equal pension rights for gay couples (Report, 17 July), but he is wrong that this was “the last legal differential between gay and heterosexual people”. As a heterosexual person I cannot enter a civil partnership with my partner of over 30 years. This affects his right to have the same benefits from my pension as a husband would. Let’s continue the fight for equality.Deborah DickinsonLondon |
| • I wonder how many readers have FTSE 100 tracker investments. Both British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands are comfortably positioned within this Index (Ministers publish plan to slash tobacco use, 19 July). James PamNottingham | • I wonder how many readers have FTSE 100 tracker investments. Both British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands are comfortably positioned within this Index (Ministers publish plan to slash tobacco use, 19 July). James PamNottingham |
| • Why all this fuss about life expectancy tailing off (Report, 18 July)? For years we have been told of the social and financial pressures involving people like me growing in numbers. And remember this summer young lefties telling each other not to despair as they are moving closer to utopia “with every funeral”?Edward ThomasEastbourne, East Sussex | • Why all this fuss about life expectancy tailing off (Report, 18 July)? For years we have been told of the social and financial pressures involving people like me growing in numbers. And remember this summer young lefties telling each other not to despair as they are moving closer to utopia “with every funeral”?Edward ThomasEastbourne, East Sussex |
| • Wendy Harvey (Letters, 13 July) suggests we all pick up one piece of litter a day and hopes someone will come up with a catchy logo for her campaign. As I cycle round rural lanes in Norfolk, fuming at the amount I see (and collect), I feel we should take aim at the litterers with the slogan “Don’t be a tosser.”Nancy KroisMileham, Norfolk | • Wendy Harvey (Letters, 13 July) suggests we all pick up one piece of litter a day and hopes someone will come up with a catchy logo for her campaign. As I cycle round rural lanes in Norfolk, fuming at the amount I see (and collect), I feel we should take aim at the litterers with the slogan “Don’t be a tosser.”Nancy KroisMileham, Norfolk |
| • During the 80s our local fishmonger used to put an advert in his window: “Wanted, brainless youth for nasty, wet, mucky job out the back.” He always seemed to get the staff (Do obnoxious job adverts ever work?, G2, 19 July).Terri GreenLangley, Warwickshire | • During the 80s our local fishmonger used to put an advert in his window: “Wanted, brainless youth for nasty, wet, mucky job out the back.” He always seemed to get the staff (Do obnoxious job adverts ever work?, G2, 19 July).Terri GreenLangley, Warwickshire |
| • When Donald Trump says “let Obamacare fail” (Report, 19 July), he appears to be aping Jeremy Hunt’s strategy with the NHS.Garry BoothHalesworth, Suffolk | • When Donald Trump says “let Obamacare fail” (Report, 19 July), he appears to be aping Jeremy Hunt’s strategy with the NHS.Garry BoothHalesworth, Suffolk |
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