62 Letters


THE HERALD FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10 2017


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MUST WE PUT UP WITH THE NOISE?


DEAR SIR, Why must our Leisure Centres


pump incessant discordant noise through their loudspeakers when users are cycling, rowing or running on the spot in a lather of sweat?


When I complained a well-


built fellow user said he had a Master’s degree in Sports Science and added that listening to music was part of the integral experience of being in a gym. ‘Hold on, gwd boi,’ I said, ‘this is not music mun but noise. It does my ‘ead in’. I ventured further by


stating I had also studied for a Master’s degree and never had a tutor insisted I should listen to monotonous noise to supplement the creative juices. I had to put up with such noise


that I deemed it would require a handful of ecstasy tablets to tolerate. If such interference is necessary


would it not be better to hear say Wyn Evans’s Radio Wales show in the late morning and Tommo’s extravaganza on Radio Cymru in the afternoon? At least both offer entertainment


conducive to relaxation rather than the drivel of the commercial radio stations.


Hefin Wyn


Carreg y Fendith Maenclochog


INSPIRATION


DEAR SIR, The distinction between those


who are keen on hard Brexit and those who are repulsed by every part of their Trump/UKIP thinking has been apparent for many hundreds of years, and it is the belief that ethical principles are an essential part of human existence. Those citizens who tell you


of their pragmatic attitudes - hostile to the hapless refugee but arms dealer to Saudi Arabia and Turkey - or that human life should be controlled by market forces determined to ‘conserve’ the injustices and class divisions of the past are people who have never learned that abstract principles, unavailable to animals, can be discovered in the pages of history


Milford Beach by Claire Evans-Critten


to inspire their own lives. Populism is a view of the world


shaped by raw emotions with very little reference to rational thought. The worship of money as a tool by which to understand the world destroys a person’s ability to perceive that the immigrant is himself, in other clothes. One of the many disadvantages


of populism, which might be the malignant product of a totally irresponsible national media, devoted to the greed of market forces, is that it is much too similar to the savage and insane emotions of ISIS, lacking any of the wisdom which comes from sympathy or compassion in the human heart. The gross stupidity of ISIS is apparent to all thinking people - that ISIS defies the will of Allah, who made all children, by murdering them indiscriminately, while claiming to be Islamist. ISIS is the enemy of Allah. The inhuman depravity of ISIS


should be more than sufficient to persuade all other inhabitants of the planet that their own lives require compassion for the weak and desperate and to be capable to find ethical principles - that pearl of great price.


Name and address supplied It may be that the USA and our ALL FOR A LAUGH


DEAR SIR, This is a crazy civilisation,


where the minds of the citizens have been so abused by advertising, media and politics, that they make personal and collective decisions which would have been perceived in more rational times, as evidence of drunkenness, dipsomania, and delirium tremens. Consider whom they have


selected as the man with his finger on the red nuclear button, a clown straight from the circus who cannot deliver a coherent speech, with the power of life and death over all of us.


Britain’s politics are straight


from the Old Music Hall. We spend a large sum on Trident nuclear missiles, to threaten potential enemies with annihilation, but suddenly discover that when we aim our missile at an enemy, it might career off in the opposite direction, straight at a valued ally. Worse still, this fundamental defect is being concealed, about a deterrent which may not work, and must alarm our allies, who now feel vulnerable and not quite so valued.


THE AILING NHS


DEAR SIR, Since the UK spends less


money, as a percentage of the national wealth than most EU countries on health, it is reasonable to state that a Tory Government is denying the NHS, and also the Social Care Services, adequate funds for ideological reasons.


Prime Minister already know that Trident is unreliable, and foreign spies have found out, and that we who pay for it, are the only ones from whom the truth is withheld. If your idea of civilisation is


to exterminate a million humans, it becomes essential not to kill the wrong ones. Our ‘Independent’ Deterrent acts independently from us, in selecting its victims. The media are not concerned,


because the missile was not carrying its deadly payload. If you do intend to worry, now might be the best time to start, since it may be physically impossible later. C. N. Westerman Brynnaa


But there are many further


criticisms, which arise from the same source, such as the eagerness to involve profit making companies whenever possible. In Mrs Thatcher’s time,


everything about the NHS which could make a buck for her friends, car parking, all catering, cleaning hospitals, were snatched from hospital control, although one might have thought that diets and the elimination of dirt and bacteria might have been seen as a medical priority. But that evidence of top level


thinking controlling the NHS, above the medical specialists, explains all the years since. For thirty years, the Directors


have been cutting bed numbers, telling the public this was efficient, while patients lay on trolleys, and ambulances, at £200,000 each, were used as stationary beds. Directors, year on year, wasted


billions on agency staff at inflated rates, where most of the money went to the Agency owners. They never learnt, over


quarter of a century, that such desperate staff shortages must derive from the incompetence of those who did the forward planning, themselves. Such top management demotivates good


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