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SIR – The steady worldwide growth of prosperity in the 19th century was attributable in good measure to a largely stable world order, underpinned by the economic and naval dominance of a single power – Great Britain. This stability was sufficient to keep in check lesser local conflicts such as German and Italian unification. The same was true of the period after 1945, except that the dominant power had become the United States. The intervening period of chaos and destruction, 1914-45, arose beca
SIR – I was amused to learn that the green lobby feels Rowan Atkinson is partially to blame for the slowdown in consumers buying electric cars because he described them as lacking in soul (report, February 7). If consumers truly valued soul as well as function, then I doubt there would be many new cars on the road at all, as most look as if they plopped out of the same jelly mould. Consumers are not idiots. People choose not to buy electric cars because they are relatively expensive – to purchas
SIR – Hamas’s murderous attack on October 7 was part of its wider, stated goal of wiping Israel off the map. Of course, it is essential to bring the current conflict to a just conclusion, and to commence serious discussions on the formation of a Palestinian state. Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, correctly points out that “statehood of a people is not in the gift of its neighbour; it is the right of a people, and it is the right of the Palestinian people”. I hope she would agree that th
SIR – The concept of GPs having their own patients (Leading Article, November 30) – as envisaged by Nye Bevan – was destroyed in 2004, when NHS contracts were shifted from individual doctors to practices. Before that, a named doctor had cradle-to-grave responsibility for named patients. The doctor was the general practitioner; now it is a general practice that handles those who manage to get through the door. Often the care itself is carried out by locums. The dissatisfaction, among both patient