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SIR – Labour has scrapped its £28 billion green investment plan (report, telegraph.co.uk, February 8). Another U-turn! What, exactly, are this party’s policies?
SIR – Professor John Keown’s expertise in ethics (Letters, December 22) is unimpeachable, but he is wrong to suggest that allowing dying people to choose the manner and timing of their deaths would represent the state’s “endorsement” of that choice. It would be just as accurate to suggest that the state is “endorsing” the unnecessary suffering of dying people who would presently want to make that choice.
Plus: appeasing Iran; the language of maternity; cheery cycling; the future of religious broadcasts; and in the trenches with Keith Floyd
SIR – Despite coming from a poor background, I made it to the local grammar school, which was in fact a “grammar and technical school” (“Pledge to drop grammar school ban could go on back burner until the next election”, report, October 6).