Telegraph policies
Sir: I agree with Bill Grundy (December 14) that the Daily Telegraph is dull and in my view has been a 'spokespaper' for Conservative Central Office quite regardless of Conservative principles. As for its leanings towards Powellism, I don't believe you and I have been reading the same paper. I am on the side of the 'Young Turks'. I suggest Lord Hartwell's views are unlikely to be those of the Telegraph readers. He most probably reads the Times, the paper, incidentally which prints every Powell speech unlike the Telegraph. I think 80 per cent of the Telegraph readers would rather have Powell's Toryism than Heath's pseudo Conservatism.
I. hope Mr Deedes is not a liberal minded man. Liberal minded men (so called) have brought this wonderful country of ours, in twenty-five years, from a moral, law-abiding place, whose education of all sorts, was the envy of the world, to near anarchy, educational chaos, and to add insult to injury made this country the doss house of the world. Every troublemaker of any persuasion, creed or colour, has been welcomed with open arms and sustained by British taxpayers' money.*
All these things have come about against the wishes of the majority because politicians have not had to take notice of their constituents. They, in their lordly way, vote according to their consciences, which I hope are troubling them just now, but I doubt if "They know best,"
I am above all a patriot, and the only man who actually has the guts to speak up in defence of this country and its people, regardless of personal interest, is Enoch Powell. Patriotism is not a dirty word for him and he is admired everywhere, all over the world, for his integrity. There is not a lot of that about at the moment.
Felicia A. Shotter Millaton, Bridestowe, Devon Sir: Please tell Bill Grundy that I am a reader of the Daily Telegraph and I don't want "more wit, humour or irreverence" (December 14) in it. Peter Simple is magnificent as he is, and more would be superfluous. The coverage of the paper is, as Bill Grundy says, comprehensive, but its reporting on certain subjects, the Common Market and South Africa especially, is so biased that the paper lacks the vital factor of impartiality that one used to expect in high class journalism. All papers have the right to express their own peculiar opinions on matters of public concern in their editorials; but reporting ought to be as impartially factual as is humanly possible to make it — the facts, all the facts and no suppression of facts; and feature articles that expound one-sided opinions should be balanced by others with differing views. This is where the Daily Telegraph falls down. I don't suggest it is worse than any other newspaper to-day in this way; but they are all tending to become little more than opinion-makers controlled by the need not to offend their wealthy advertisers, They days of good journalism (like good almost everything else) are gone.
Bill Grundy accuses some of the leader-writers of the Daily Telegraph of having 'Powellite leanings'. I am very sorry I haven't noticed them; because the time has come for newspapers to prepare their readers for the coming of a national government led by the Rt. Hon. J.' Enoch Powell in order to prevent the total collapse of our nation and it interment in the European Community. If Bill Grundy is right in thinking that Bill Deedes will 'liberalise' the paper, then heaven help us! Liberalism has killed the Conservative Party and is rapidly killing the country. Thank God we still have The Spectator (which of course is not a newspaper); but I wish The Spectator would help along the vascenetniotno.f. Mr Powell before our collapse is irreversible by any but divine inter
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