Bogumit Polachowski Greasby, Wirral The appalling plan to move 400,000 photographs to London from the NMM in Bradford sums up your excellent editorial (4 February).
The companies themselves have all sorts of interests, but one of those interests is they don't want to be the platform that becomes safe for terrorists to talk to each other and plan appalling outrages on.
The opposite is the case, for although Mr Rumsfeld is rightly credited with a successful steering of the conventional war a little over a year ago, he and his team have also been responsible for many of the blunders since then: appalling post-war planning, inadequate troop numbers, excessive deBaathification, and more.
Even if the appalling "direct action" plan somehow actually succeeded in reducing Australia's carbon emissions by 5% (which an increasing number of scientists doubt), the purpose of reducing carbon emissions at all is to try to halt global warming at a maximum of 2°C warming.
The RCM's head of education and learning, Carmel Lloyd, said: "These government plans are appalling and will undoubtedly deter many committed and talented people from considering a career in midwifery.
The government is to launch an action plan to "drive appalling hate crimes" out of Britain, David Cameron has told MPs.
One Bradford councillor derided the plan as "an appalling act of cultural vandalism"; Richard Morrison, a cultural critic at the Times, dismissed it as "lunacy" and "Londoncentric nonsense".
All year there have been doubts, played out against a backdrop of institutional collapse; there has been bad luck but the planning has been appalling and the price being paid is a high one.
Thus I would like to initially write Mike a private email [[email protected]] personally apologising for my appalling behaviour and then I plan to write an open letter of apology on my blog.
And ever since the 2008 Mumbai attacks - in which gunmen walked around the streets shooting indiscriminately - Western security agencies have poured a huge amount of effort into planning for that appalling possibility.
