投稿者: Letters
Azerbaijan’s ambassader to the UK, Tahir Taghizade, responds to the recent outbreak of hostilities in the regionRegarding your article (At least 16 dead in Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes over disputed region, 27 September), Nagorno-Karabakh is not a “dispu…
Boris Johnson’s Churchillian language does not impress Richard Teverson, while Katherine Arnott dismisses the prime minister’s appeal to people’s common sense. Plus letters from Patrick Cosgrove and David Boyd HaycockI, like so many others, am slack-ja…
Daniel Snowman interviewed the former US president in 1963 and reveals what he was told. Frank Jackson thinks the bombing of Nagasaki was even more of a war crimeClifton Daniel is right about his grandfather’s bombing of Hiroshima (‘He felt he had to d…
Pakistan was the first to remove special status from its part of Kashmir, writes Om Prakash Shabbi – and it is time both India and Pakistan accepted the line of control as an international border between the two countriesOne factor largely missing from…
Prof Christopher R Hughes believes a letter by Dr Hugh Goodacre on the crisis in Hong Kong does not stand up to historical scrutinyDr Hugh Goodacre’s letter (5 July) in response to Simon Jenkins (Britain can’t protect Hong Kong from China – but it can …
Readers highlight the dangers of anti-Chinese sentiment over Hong Kong, and contrast Britain’s offer of citizenship to many Hongkongers with the treatment of the Windrush generation. Simon Jenkins (Britain can’t protect Hong Kong from China – but it ca…
John Munro on his slave-owning ancestor, Martin Wright on corporate irresponsibility in India, Peter McKenna on class awareness, Jane Darling on black and white history, Brian Keegan on anti-Irish racism, Dorothy Chang on ‘yellow history’ and Barbara H…
Readers’ views on Britain’s approach to the spread of coronavirus, and whether the current official advice is practical and proportionateDespite a clearly slow start in reacting to the coronavirus, the dynamic capabilities of the Chinese state have ena…
The World Health Organization should not exclude Taiwan from efforts to tackle the outbreak, writes David YL Lin of the Taipei Representative Office. David E Hanke says an anthropomorphic explanation of viruses can be dangerous. And Robert East warns a…
Libby Ruffle on China’s economic gains and humanitarian failings, and Jim Denham on Beijing’s global dominanceMartin Jacques writes about the “world-transforming” effect of China’s economic growth on Europe and the US (This decade belonged to China. So…
Most Britons were not hostile and helped south Asians and east Africans to settle, says Nitin Mehta, while Jane Lane believes racism needs to be tackled at an early ageKavita Puri, like so many others before her, talks about the racism faced by immigra…
Vinita Damodaran lauds the protesters in India rallying to protect the postcolonial constitution, and Laura Phillips criticises the British colonial legacy in CanadaThe protests erupting all over India about the changes to citizenship embodied in the C…
In response to a report that a Hindu guru had a established his own island off the coast of Ecuador, Ambassador Jaime Marchan Romero clarifies that no individual would ever be allowed to annex off land from a sovereign stateWith regard to your report o…
Karen Yuen responds to letters about the Hong Kong government and allegations of police brutalityI am writing in response to the letter from Winky So, director general of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London (22 November). Her claim that H…
Letters from Winky So, director general of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London, and from Hong Kong resident Koh-Ann ChuYour editorials (19 November and 13 November) allege that actions by the Hong Kong special administrative region govern…