23rd of November 2016 - Steam Solution

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23rd of November 2016

Dear Sir/Madam,

STEAM SOLUTION

My recent experience of the Borders Railway shows that the only trains which seem consistently to run timeously are the specials drawn by steam locomotives some of which are more than 75 years old.

Perhaps the answer to Scotland's current Railway Crisis is to build many more to similar or even modernised designs. If Scottish engineering companies are no longer up to this, then India still has the capability and I'm sure that a large locomotive order to the Indian sub-continent would do much to repair the damage done by Mrs May's recent visit.

John Eoin Douglas

9th of November 2016 - Presidential Query

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9th of November 2016

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

PRESIDENTIAL QUERY

 

If Brexit is Brexit, that presumably means that Trump is Trump. But will it be a hard Trump or a soft one?

John Eoin Douglas

2nd of November 2016 - Sporting Excess

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2nd of November 2016

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

SPORTING EXCESS

Why hold a football match on Remembrance Day anyway? It should be a time to remember our fallen not a day for tawdry sporting fixtures!

John Eoin Douglas