Because of Tubby the organisation got a few tickets to the garden party. We very young Americans (Winant Volunteers) came over to work in churches or clubs for young people, and young Brits did the same in New York City and environs (Clayton Volunteers). In the summer of 1952, I worked in London for the Winant & Clayton volunteers, an organization founded by the Reverend “Tubby” Clayton, who also presided over All Hallows, London, among other activities, including being Chaplain to the Queen (although that may not be the right title). I write not for recognition but to say “thank you” to a wonderful woman. The establishment of the Reaction letters page for subscribers has motivated me to put down my thoughts. But how could any peace deal be agreed when the Russian dictator is incapable of keeping his word? The only option is to defeat Russia and hope they see sense enough to overthrow the tyrant.Ībout a year ago I started to write a letter to the Queen, but somehow I never got around to finishing it, probably because I knew she would never see it. Of course he is right the risk of nuclear war is high. Gerald Warner says it is time to negotiate with Putin.
In other words, such a long habituation to power had rendered Sir Tom Scholar mad in economic terms. Not only was this programme of fiscal tightening unnecessary, but since it would result in recession, it would almost certainly fail to recover Britain’s fiscal position. Such a combined tightening of monetary and fiscal policy is almost certainly bound to lead to a recession. Secondly, after that he proposed a return to orthodoxy involving a fiscal correction centred on a program of tax rises at exactly the same time as monetary policy was necessarily being tightened dramatically. Sir Tom’s Treasury devised economic and financial policies which, in the last two years, have degenerated into something close to madness.įirst, the Treasury oversaw an unprecedented spending program, without a thought to how it was to be financed except through the short-term solution of quantitative easing. Iain Martin’s recent piece on Tom Scholar’s defenestration missed the obvious point. They also hate you British at Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Figaro, Corriere della la Sera and De Telegraaf – but you can’t read them because you don’t understand their language. Let’s hope we see more of that and less of the NYT’s click baiting. We recall Reagan’s speech after the Shuttle disaster, we all have close ties. We care about that, because we British respect the US we remember from 9/11. Their coverage is damaging long-term relations. Do they really think the British minded paying for her funeral from our taxes? Do they really believe she was leader of some club for white colonialists? Yet the NYT in its coverage got it so badly wrong. Everybody was there, everyone chatting away. These people, prepared to walk slowly for at least 8 hours just to pay their respects were a sample of humanity. The respect in which she was held is universal. I walked beside the seven mile long queue to see her lying in State. Take one example: the death last month of Her Majesty. I was educated in the States, have many friends there, but I am heartily sick of their media’s ridiculous, ill-informed UK coverage. The downside for New York, and for America, is that the British are beginning to dislike Americans. There is money to be made in sanctimonious drivel, as you say. I now realise – thanks to your article (Why the World’s Worst Newspaper Hates Britain so much, Sept 12 2022) – that they would not dream of responding.
I have written regularly to the The New York Times to express my disgust at their coverage of the UK, and still await their response.
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