R C M Watson Leigh on Sea, Essex Ill-judged meddling with house prices State intervention to support housing markets is morally dubious: effectively forcing taxpayers to subsidise the profligate to keep houses out of reach of the prudent, but the Chancellor's mumblings about a possible future suspension of stamp duty are also ill judged ("Rescue plan to save property market", 6 August).
What is running unchecked like never before is Imperial Washington's penchant for taxing, spending, borrowing, regulating, meddling, money printing, and foreign intervention and military adventurism.
The Bloomberg administration has long trumpeted the safety benefits of its many roadway initiatives, hoping to rebuff critics who consider the policies to be undue interventions from a meddling city.
But parents who have not been burned by their own intervention either meddle, consider meddling or worry about not meddling.
More significant in current circumstances is the monarchy's continual covert influence on government, from the Queen's weekly audiences with the prime minister and Prince Charles's avowed "meddling" to lesser known arm's-length interventions.
But then, broadly speaking, foreign-aid donors moved away from such interventions, which were viewed as meddling with the free market, and shifted financing priorities to areas like education and AIDS.
Inside Syria itself, though, there has been no call for external military intervention – the people are opposed to any foreign meddling.
A day later he told a group of Turkish and German businessmen in Hanover that the idea of NATO intervention in Libya was "absurd"; the alliance had no business meddling in non-member states, he said.
Scraping into the post-season is like treating a gaping chest wound with a tiny boo-boo patch: it only postpones the interventions needed to address the Leafs' culture of losing, meddling ownership, and poor player development.
"Years of foreign intervention have not only failed to produce any significant benefits for those meddling in the country's affairs, but have also led to a situation where the Afghan conflict has become a growing threat to peace and stability in the region and beyond".
