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1.2.6. FB's published letters

1.2.6.4. Letters in newspapers - The Times

 

The Times

Letters on The Times main letters page

Letters on The Times Business News page

Letters on The Times Debate page

Letters in The Times Law

Letters on The Times Register (Lives Remembered) page

Letters in The Times Public Agenda

Letters on The Times Modern Times page

 

The letters are arranged chronologically, starting in 1949. See sections 1.2.6.2

 

Letters on The Times main letters page


1949.001 T001L Charity law: cats or monks?


1965.001 T002L Fairness to ratepayers

1971.009 T003L FB’s prosecution of Peter Hain for criminal conspiracy

1972.001 T004L Costs of FB’s prosecution of Peter Hain


1976.011 T005L How to treat obscenity
1976.012 T006L Are MPs competent legislators?
1976.013 T007L Democracy endangered by clumsy parliamentary procedures
1976.014 T008L Pairing of MPs: good faith needed
1976.015 T009L Elective dictatorship: a false charge by Lord Hailsham
1976.016 T010L The House of Lords as a revising chamber
1976.017 T011L Magistrate defames defendant while acquitting him


1977.010 T012L Is pornography therapeutic?
1977.011 T013L Hailsham’s ‘elective dictatorship’ again
1977.012 T014L Mary Whitehouse prosecutes for blasphemy
1977.013 T015L Should there be mirrors in the Gents?
1977.014 T016L Should the right of private prosecution exist?


1978.014 T017L Creation of ‘library copyright’?

1978.015 T018L Drawbacks of a Bill of Rights
1978.016 T019L Why the European Human Rights Convention should not be part of our law
1978.017 T020L Chivalry and El Vino’s
1978.018 T021L Advantages of abolishing the House of Lords

1979.013 T022L Further thoughts on abolishing the House of Lords
1979.014 T023L When crimes should be prosecuted


1980.023 T024L Further objections to a Bill of Rights
1980.024 T025L Further objections to the European Human Rights Convention
1980.025 T026L Attempted theft
1980.026 T027L Further thoughts on crimes of attempt
1980.027 T028L How the House of Lords could reform itself
1980.028 T029L Why there should be a Human Rights parliamentary select committee


1981.017 T030L Why Lord Denning should retire

1983.011 T031L Delays in activating the Consumer Credit Act 1974
1983.012 T032L Why Acts should contain a ‘historical file’
1983.013 T033L Objections to proportional representation
1983.014 T034L Our house is still our castle
1983.015 T035L There will never again be paid jobs for all
1983.016 T036L More thoughts on unemployment

1984.003 T037L The miners’ strike: failing to prosecute Scargill
1984.004 T038L Treating fines as a business expense
1984.005 T039L More thoughts on prosecuting Scargill
1984.006 T040L Women entitled to ordination since 1919
1984.007 T041L Still more thoughts on prosecuting Scargill

1985.004 T042L Juries trying aliens
1985.005 T043L The missing concept of courtesy


1986.009 T044L Why water shouldn’t be privatised
1986.010 T045L Round-the-houses motor racing
1986.011 T046L Walking to school


1988.009 T047L An accused’s right to silence

1988.010 T048L Justice must be seen to be done


1989.008 T049L What’s wrong with Bar’s Chambers system
1989.009 T050L Judges’ interference with Government
1989.010 T051L Integrating Ulster with rest of UK
1989.011 T052L Controlling football hooligans


1990.008 T053L Ulster ruled by political parties it didn’t elect
1990.009 T054L IRA murder of Ian Gow MP
1990.010 T055L Why not treat Conservatives as an Ulster political party?


1991.006 T056L Keeping the common law up to date


1992.003 T057L Consent to a private prosecution
1992.004 T058L Licensing of homicide by judges


1994.009 T059L Humanist morality
1994.010 T060L Should we have a ‘not proven’ verdict?


1995.008 T061L Can non-lawyers understand legislation?
1995.009 T062L Pakistan threat to non-Islamic religions
1995.010 T063L How bank holidays spread to neighbouring days
1995.011 T064L Official failure to resist direct action militants
1995.012 T065L Government interference with prosecution policy


1996.005 T066L Using inexperienced legislative drafters
1996.006 T067L Islam’s unlawful English parliament
1996.007 T068L European court extends its own jurisdiction
1996.008 T069L Goldsmith’s absurd referendum question


1997.003 T070L Judicial officers must be ‘high-principled’
1997.004 T071L MPs who will not take the oath
1997.005 T072L Overruling of film censor by local authority
1997.006 T073L Attack on Viscount Tonypandy
1997.007 T074L Meaning of ‘public authority’ in Human Rights Bill


1998.019 T075L New House of Lords should not be elected
1998.020 T076L New House of Lords should not be chosen like a jury
1998.021 T077L Frank Field MP as a man of principle
1998.022 T078L More objections to proportional representation


1999.032 T079L More on judicial expansionism
1999.033 T080L Delay in activating Human Rights Act 1998
1999.034 T081L Should there be an English Parliament?
1999.035 T082L Reliance on implication in legislation
1999.036 T083L More on judicial expansionism


2000.058 T084L More on membership of new House of Lords
2000.059 T085L Tony Martin: more on the house as a castle
2000.060 T086L News officially stage-managed
2000.061 T087L More on Human Rights Act 1998
2000.062 T088L The Human Rights Act 1998 and under-age sex
2000.063 T089L Derisory royalties for academic authors


2001.033 T090L What MPs say about the meaning of Bills
2001.034 T091L Criminalising underage sex between age-mates
2001.035 T092L More on criminalising underage sex
2001.036 T093L Unlawful acts of Northern Ireland Secretary
2001.037 T094L Criminalising criticism of religion


2002.011 T095L Keeping civil servants independent of Government
2002.012 T096L Old people and computers
2002.013 T097L Trade unions and ‘cash for influence’
2002.014 T098L Iraq: war not the ugliest of things


2003.018 T099L Common law is behind Human Rights Act 1998
2003.019 T100L Why we should keep the Lord Chancellor

2003.020 T101L Bias and the BBC’s responsibilities (Iraq war)

2003.021 T102L Honours system restricts freedom

 

2004.022 T103L Fair trials and suicide bombers

2004.023 T104L Racism: Ron Atkinson’s TV slip

2004.024 T105L Mental Capacity Bill

2004.032 T106L The Times goes 'compact'

 

2005.014 T107L Stirring up religious hatred

2005.027 T108L Arguments against proportional representation

 

2006.006 T109L 'Legislave and Regulatory Reform Bill', 20 February 2006

2006.026 Legislation in plain English?, Sent on 17 June 2006 but not published

 

2007.008 T110L 'Clearing the Court for Niqab wearers', 30 Apr 2007

2007.010 T111L Blair's right to act as Prime Minister when retiring, 8 Jun 2007

2007.016 T112 Blair's right to act as Prime Minister when retiring (3), 12 Jun 2007

 

2008.008 T113L Ed Balls attacked over his bullying of schools, 23 Apr 2008 Lead letter

2008.018 T114L Poor quality of Bill for extending 28-day charging period, 11 Jun 2008 Lead Letter

 

Letters on The Times Business News page

 

1978.013 BN001L Need for a Council of Consultant Professions

 

Letters on The Times Debate page

 

2002.015 D001L Regional assemblies betray the ancient kingdom of England
2002.016 D002L Conservative Party members not washed up


2003.022 D003L Rowan Williams is wrong man for job
2003.023 D004L When flexitime is unreasonable
2003.024 D005L Destroying the wonderful thing called childhood
2003.025 D006L Is debt an evil?

2003.026 D007L Naked ramblers

2003.027 D008L Hutton Inquiry

 

2004.010 D009L Reforming the Honours System

2004.011 D010L Defects of the draft European Union Constitution

2004.012 D011L Smacking of children

 

 

Letters in the The Times Law

 

2005.026 L001L Homophobia in Times Law

 

Letters on The Times Register (Lives Remembered) pages

 

2002.010. LR001L More on Sir Garfield Todd deceased


2003.013 LR002L More on Lord Jenkins of Hillhead deceased
2003.014 LR003L More on Sir John Smith QC deceased
2003.015 LR004L More on Edward Erdman deceased

2003.016 LR005L Godfrey Carter CBE deceased

2003.017 LR006L More on Godfrey Carter CBE deceased

 

Letters in The Times Public Agenda

 

2004.029 PA001L Means tested

2004.036 PA002L Teaching Aetheism

 

Letters on The Times Modern Times pages

 

2004.031 MT001L How to ditch your partner

 
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