Letters – 13 November 2015
A charter for carrying on as before to hospitality
A charter for carrying on as before
The logic behind Ian Beeson’s letter (30 October) on the statement Our Faith in the Future needs to be underlined and answered. I offer some underlining:
- One assumes there was an evaluation of the preceding five-year-plan. In what ways does the new statement respond to that evaluation?
- What are the tools in the new statement which allow its usefulness to be periodically evaluated?
- Does the new statement have a time frame in which to be evaluated or is it simply a timeless set of fine Quaker aspirations destined to be brought out for occasional dusting? To avoid this unfortunate fate perhaps we now need to build on the new statement by creating a Framework for action and, most importantly, an evaluative system to go with it?
Who is going to offer an answer to the logic?
Gerald Drewett
Democracy UK?
I feel compelled to respond to Ernest Hall’s sombre letter (30 October). For ten years, I have been labouring on a novel about a policeman going in search of the widow of a man he killed during a ‘dirty war’ between the government and the people in Britain. Everything I put in that book has been done by the British police or police forces in other supposedly civilised countries, or recommended by retired NATO generals. It has turned out something like a British Crime and Punishment and chillingly close to Ernest’s dark forebodings.
Tony Crofts
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