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| Fri 22 Sep 2017 18.25 BST | |
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| Cutting the number of lords is no guarantee of improved efficiency (Report, 21 September), especially if the government sets the criteria for who goes and who stays. A more direct solution would be an elected second chamber, preferably using a system of PR. There are some wonderful, experienced peers and I would love for their voices and advice to be retained in any reformed second chamber, but revising legislation should be done by those elected by the people.Jenny JonesGreen party, House of Lords | Cutting the number of lords is no guarantee of improved efficiency (Report, 21 September), especially if the government sets the criteria for who goes and who stays. A more direct solution would be an elected second chamber, preferably using a system of PR. There are some wonderful, experienced peers and I would love for their voices and advice to be retained in any reformed second chamber, but revising legislation should be done by those elected by the people.Jenny JonesGreen party, House of Lords |
| • As a reader of this newspaper since it was the Manchester Guardian, I found the articles by Simon Jenkins (Trump may go to war on a lie. We don’t have to follow) and Polly Toynbee (What a fearless May would say) on 21 September two of the most impressive and pertinent that I have read for a long time. Capped by a typically brilliant cartoon by Steve Bell, this was the Guardian at its very bestDr David MervinEmeritus reader in politics, University of Warwick | • As a reader of this newspaper since it was the Manchester Guardian, I found the articles by Simon Jenkins (Trump may go to war on a lie. We don’t have to follow) and Polly Toynbee (What a fearless May would say) on 21 September two of the most impressive and pertinent that I have read for a long time. Capped by a typically brilliant cartoon by Steve Bell, this was the Guardian at its very bestDr David MervinEmeritus reader in politics, University of Warwick |
| • Your critics’ page on 21 September featured pieces on i) a dance troupe, ii) the new music director of the London Symphony Orchestra and iii) the former Nirvana drummer who now fronts the Foo Fighters. Shake, Rattle and Grohl?Haydn MiddletonKidlington, Oxfordshire | • Your critics’ page on 21 September featured pieces on i) a dance troupe, ii) the new music director of the London Symphony Orchestra and iii) the former Nirvana drummer who now fronts the Foo Fighters. Shake, Rattle and Grohl?Haydn MiddletonKidlington, Oxfordshire |
| • Eamonn Holmes with a dominatrix is certainly a worrying image (Last night’s TV, 22 September). But to be consistent with the Guardian’s use of ungendered terms like actor and waiter (and perhaps to illustrate their potential for confusion), shouldn’t Eamonn have been having his fun with a dominator?Mike HineKingston upon Thames, Surrey | • Eamonn Holmes with a dominatrix is certainly a worrying image (Last night’s TV, 22 September). But to be consistent with the Guardian’s use of ungendered terms like actor and waiter (and perhaps to illustrate their potential for confusion), shouldn’t Eamonn have been having his fun with a dominator?Mike HineKingston upon Thames, Surrey |
| • I think it’s undoubtedly the case that the length of a marriage is in inverse proportion to the amount of money spent on the nuptials (Lose the wedding butterflies, 22 September).Helen Major Needham, Norfolk | • I think it’s undoubtedly the case that the length of a marriage is in inverse proportion to the amount of money spent on the nuptials (Lose the wedding butterflies, 22 September).Helen Major Needham, Norfolk |
| • Re meetings (Letters, 22 September): my dear friend Jean Farrall, the first woman official of the NUT, told me she just imagined the men sitting in their underpants. It’s always worked for me.Jean JacksonSeer Green, Buckinghamshire | • Re meetings (Letters, 22 September): my dear friend Jean Farrall, the first woman official of the NUT, told me she just imagined the men sitting in their underpants. It’s always worked for me.Jean JacksonSeer Green, Buckinghamshire |
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