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SIR – Recent letters have discussed inheritance tax (December 28). I am 86 years old. I was born and brought up in the Black Country, the eldest of four boys, whose father was a holder up in a steel rolling mill.
WITH all the bad news about Covid-19, Brexit and borders, there is at least one bit of excellent news to celebrate. Because of Brexit, we were was able to start vaccinating two weeks before any EU nation and order vaccine in sufficient quantity to treat the entire population. Owing to the involvement of the European Medicines Agency, the EU did not order vaccine until mid-November and then only from German and French companies, and not in sufficient quantities for the entire population. By contrast, the UK Government had placed orders for 340 million doses by the end of September, so that...
December 21 2020, 9.19am Sir, – Regarding Maaike Cook’s comment on the honourable and democratic outcome of Scotland’s 2014 Referendum (Letters, November 28). My recollection is Scotland was cheated, with no honourable or democratic niceties by the Westminster Government, with their ridiculing, degrading and fearmongering language towards the Scots. Was it honourable and democratic for the Westminster Government to invite outside forces to interfere in the 2014 Referendum? I have lived through part of Scotland’s turbulent political history and seen not only referendums lost, so I ask...