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Aid and business: crucial in healthy economies
From Mr Alan Parker and others. Sir, We have written to David Cameron on Monday to applaud his decision to stick to the UK’s commitment to overseas aid to the developing world
10:07pm
Privacy need not be compromised
From Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP. Sir, Your report on the progress of new EU data privacy legislation posits a battle in which the Goliath of US technology giants has vanquished the David of European pro-citizen enlightenment
10:04pm
Profit trumps principles in EU-US trade
From Mr Gonçalo Cabral. Sir, It was just a few weeks ago that the FT reported the outrage in Brussels following the efforts of US lobbies interested in watering down European law on data privacy
10:00pm
Liability must be a pretty ugly sight
From Mr Greg Elliott. Sir, John Studzinski ably demonstrates the parallel universe inhabited by senior financiers
9:56pm
Democracy is also eroded in Brussels
From Mr Giles Conway-Gordon. Sir, Mark Mazower’s accurate analysis of the unfolding political consequences of austerity in the eurozone should be amplified
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Mar 9, 2013
Can you hear me, mother?
From Mr Harry Dawes. On the plane I found the crosswords. I looked at Polymath. Clue one across was: ‘Comedian Sandy Powell’s catchphrase (3,3,4,2,6)’
Mar 9, 2013
Messianic rise of Beppe Grillo in an age of omens
From Ms Valeria Maia. Sir, Maybe it is because we have been living in a time of Mayan omens and falling meteors, that the possible ‘advent’ of a comedian in the leadership of Italy looks like yet another sign of destiny
Mar 9, 2013
Devaluation was considered before election of 1964
From Mr Anthony Murray. Sir, Philip Stephens implies that the Wilson government of 1964-70 regarded devaluation with as much repugnance as he does
Mar 9, 2013
I have a sneaking affection for snuck
From Mr Nic Boyde. Sir, Albert Isola (Letters, March 2) objects to the FT using ‘snuck’ as the past participle of ‘sneak’
Mar 9, 2013
£6,000 is missing from my account
From Dr John Fleming. Sir, Tim Harford tells us that the Bank of England has created about £6,000 per person since the start of the financial crisis. But this money has apparently not yet stimulated the economy
Mar 9, 2013
The Beeching report was far-sighted
From Mr D.R. Smith. Sir, Matthew Engel is being rather unfair to Richard Beeching
Mar 9, 2013
Credit US public with more sense
From Mr Samuel Weeks. Sir, While I admit to not having read Alan Blinder’s ‘excellent new book’ I find his prognosis of the US public being in an ‘inchoate rage’ post-crisis to be inaccurate and, frankly, tone deaf
Mar 9, 2013
Finance industry’s parallel with film
From Mr Jack Stonehouse. Sir, The FT should spend more time interviewing film stars. The parallels between the film and finance industries are uncanny
Mar 9, 2013
Future looks sound for music after the digital revolution
From Mr Raphael Bailly. Sir, While the challenges of how to sell music made during the ‘pre-digital’ era are indeed huge, the digital music revolution isn’t as bleak as you describe
Mar 9, 2013
FT collaborates in identity theft
Sir, Despite being ‘one of Britain’s leading economists’ and a frequent contributor to Newsnight, Vicky Pryce is identified in the FT as ‘Huhne’s wife’
Mar 9, 2013
Language is key to becoming an insider
From Mr Lawrence Sherwin. Sir, Derek B. Miller writes that he cannot align himself culturally in Norway, that he cannot ‘penetrate’ the Norwegians and will always remain an outsider
Mar 9, 2013
Do something big and bright for the homeless
From Ms Alice Bray. Sir, The controversy over the Norman Foster redesign for the New York Public Library main building involves two sides
Mar 9, 2013
Commons takes corruption seriously
From Kevin Barron MP. Sir, The House of Commons’ welcome for the Greco report on the UK may be easier to understand in the context of the report as a whole
Mar 9, 2013
Is this gardening’s best-kept secret?
From Mr John Lock. Sir, Oh dear. So Robin Lane Fox thinks that Kay Maguire is ‘a dashing Kew-trained blonde’
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