For the sake of Sri-Lanka, stop legitimising the Tamil Tigers
I am a British citizen of Sri-Lankan origin and I protest at the biased article regarding Sri-Lanka on your site ('Sri-Lanka must stop treating Tamils as terrorists', March 11). I am consistently surprised by the western media's extremist bias towards a brutal terrorist group - the Tamil Tigers.… [continued] 'Plumblossom'
Claims about Margaret Thatcher are outdated, thank goodness
Presumably "leading historian" Andrew Roberts, with bit o' paper (honorary?) from Hogfart University, Missouri is among those undead Thatcherites still in mourning. His recent ludicrous encomium ('How Margaret Thatcher made Britain great again', February 25) about abolishing industry, breaking the shackles of society, etc ad nauseam was… [continued] Allan Kessing - Sydney, Australia
St Day hasn’t had its day, despite these negative comments
Somebody has to respond to Loic Rich's appallingly negative articles from 2006 about St Day - a wonderful and unspoilt Cornish mining village. ('St Day - The village that lost control', 2006) Clear personal issues aside (one bad experience probably) I should advise that St Day recently won… [continued] Adrian King
The USSR never pushed drugs
I love your publication but you've got something very, very wrong in Brendan O'Neill's piece about the pro-drugs lobby pushing an authoritarian argument for legalising cannabis (February 19). Your piece claims that the USSR routinely medicated its populace with psychotropic drugs to prevent them protesting about the… [continued] Neil McGowan
The author writes:
Neil McGowan says it is "utter bollocks" to claim that the Soviet Union used drugs to sedate dissidents and other "members of the awkward squad", as I argued in my article on pro-dope activism. In fact, it is widely recognised that punitive psychology was used as a means of… [continued] Brendan O'Neill
Don’t put Daldry in the doldrums
You're normally spot on, but you miss a huge point in the story about My Fair Lady being remade, with a script by Emma Thompson. ('Stephen Daldry takes on 'clunky' My Fair Lady', February 13) You say: "Although Thompson wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film Nanny McPhee,… [continued] Georgina Pattinson
I'm very delighted reading you daily newsletter and lots of your stories. However, I now have to respond to an article and because the story about Stephen Daldry and his take on My Fair Lady is not signed ('Stephen Daldry takes on 'clunky' My Fair Lady', February 13),… [continued] Andrea Pascher
The editor writes:
We have had a substantial number of letters making this point and have subsequently amended the original article.
Greenland mistakes cropping up
It is not true - as you said recently ('Briefing - Greenland: Northern Rights', December 22) - that crops are being grown on Greenland for the first time (as a consequence of man-made global warming). During the Mediaeval Warming Period (800-1200), wheat, barley and edible grasses were… [continued] Neil Lyndon
Where is your coverage of Hamas bombardments?
Why do I not read about or see photos on The First Post of the years of rockets falling in Israel? L. Karlin
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