SIR – We should welcome the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, which seeks to force Switzerland to enact the climate policies of Greta Thunberg and her friends (“Tory backlash over European court’s climate ruling”, report, April 10).
SIR – The senior figures in the NHS complaining about possible reductions in the level of service from Royal Mail (Letters, April 6) have merely drawn attention to their own organisation’s failings.
SIR – The steady worldwide growth of prosperity in the 19th century was attributable in good measure to a largely stable world order, underpinned by the economic and naval dominance of a single power – Great Britain. This stability was sufficient to keep in check lesser local conflicts such as German and Italian unification. The same was true of the period after 1945, except that the dominant power had become the United States. The intervening period of chaos and destruction, 1914-45, arose beca
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SIR – Peter Stanford is the latest columnist to describe the numerous woes of the Church of England (Features, March 31). Many readers will simply say to themselves: “What does it matter if the former leading religion in the country fades into oblivion?” A tour of the villages of England will provide an answer: in every part of the country, parish churches occupy a central position. Prior to the establishment of parish councils in 1894, the local church not only provided spiritual guidance to th