Why on earth is HS2 still going ahead?
I AM at a loss as to why this HS2 Project was ever sanctioned, especially now that people have discovered that they can work from home, just to save 20 minutes or so on journey time.
We know that deforestation must be stopped and yet this project is to destroy 108 ancient woodlands.
Perhaps David Attenborough could lead on this?
Also the Government is to give hundreds of thousands of our taxed money to heritage sites.
Football clubs are looking for bailouts, big joke when you consider what money these premadonas get paid.
And airline companies are looking for money – sorry, but cut the cloth to suit and stop cheap flights. This money is not the Government’s money – it’s the tax payers.
I’m just concerned that we will get clobbered on our taxes next year. extremely good job of administering the monies left by Colston to the charities he set up.
The girls’ school gets lots of mention on this subject, but Colston primarily left his money for a Boys’ School and it was only when that had been paid for that with the monies left over they decided to build a Girls’ School. Are the boys going to change their name also?
The younger people of today are not really interested in past history and how Bristol became the city and county that it is.
I am very proud to be a Bristolian although I have not lived in the city for over 60 years.
I am also proud to be an old Colston girl, and so are friends of mine with whom I was with at that time. Indeed, many of us celebrated Colston’s School Centenary Service I THINK everybody realises they in the Cathedral in 1991. increase the risk of catching Covid
What these hooligans do not 19 when reducing their awareness of understand is that slavery in the 18th their surroundings and might reduce I HOPE that Robert Jenrick and/ and 19th centuries was normal. Yes, that risk by abstaining from alcohol? or Boris Johnson have read P. some were treated very badly, but We also know that older people Tamblyn’s excellent letter in last others were treated well and this are more likely to suffer and die from Wednesday’s edition, because goes for the world today. what Trump calls ‘the Chinese virus’. their Utopian idea seems to be the
Some workers, whether white or Might some of the extra construction of tens of thousands black, have awful lives in factories, vulnerability of the older population new houses with tree-lined streets. and let us not forget the sweat shops have anything to do with the This sounds attractive and not only here in this country, but in medication they take for other romantic but unfortunately trees India, China and Africa. conditions, by interfering with our have a habit of shedding leaves
Think back to Biblical times and natural immune systems? which block drains, which then how they treated Jesus. To me, I don’t take any regular cause flooding, something we personally, I treat all colours and medication, only vitamins and should be trying to avoid. religions with respect, something cod liver oil which, combined with In years to come as the trees sadly lacking in today’s world. nearly zero alcohol, might swing my develop, their roots start to heave
To me, those people who tore pendulum one way or the other. the road and pavement surfaces, down the statue on June 7 are worse We all know that alcohol interferes becoming difficult for wheelchairs, than those that transported the with our biochemistry. It might be I HAVE just heard on the media that prams and cyclists. Even dangerous. slaves here. interesting to find out. Exeter’s high Covid-19 figures are Please, let’s keep the trees away
How many of those folk were If in doubt, don’t drink, don’t ‘contained’ to the student sector. from the streets and avoid causing descendents of the original slaves? smoke, don’t vape and don’t take As one of the latest huge student more expense for our cash- strapped councils.Howmanywereactuallyblack?Torecreationaldrugs,painkillers,accommodationblocksthathas
my mind most of them were there sleeping pills, laxatives and avoid been built adjacent to the bus for fun and to rabble rouse, with no respect for the pandemic state we were and still are in.
To wipe out every trace of Colston’s name is a disgrace and as for the Colston Hall’s new name, to spend three years and money on coming up with something resembling a free newspaper, is also a disgrace. As other correspondents before have said, it will always be the Colston Hall, although with its very modern look now, it could be a bit more imaginative. breathing in diesel exhaust fumes.
But I bet HMG won’t release such data, even it they have got it, because if we all stuck to the above, the UK would only need an NHS half the size, except when there is a new virus about.