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When did America cease being nice, anyway?
It was saddening to look at the crowds of Donald Trump supporters gathered for the inauguration to joyfully proclaim that their president would ‘make America nice once more’ (Metro, Tue).
Not one in every of these unthinking individuals stopped to think about the query of when America stopped being nice.
Consider the Hollywood movies, the jazz, the nice writers reminiscent of Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, the house expertise, the world-class medical analysis and the illustrious universities. These are however just a few of the issues that make America nice, not some bigoted vulgarian enjoying to his constituents’ ignorance. Jules Stewart, London
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Keep in mind, he’s the president of the US
‘He’s not turn out to be the ruler of the entire world’
The media protection of Donald Trump’s inauguration has been big, and in reality ridiculously extreme. There must be a actuality test right here.
On the finish of the day, he has been elected president of the US, a rustic 1000’s of miles away, which accounts for under round 4 per cent of the world’s inhabitants.
He was truly solely chosen by round half of those that determined to vote within the presidential election there.
Even within the US, he doesn’t have a licence to do no matter he needs. Congress has the ability to override the president and, on prime of this, the person states there have a point of autonomy.
It appears that evidently some individuals have to get a way of proportion about Trump. It’s not like he’s simply turn out to be some sort of ruler for the entire world. Kevin, Watford
‘Why did he not place his hand on the bible?’
Trump believes he was ‘saved by God to make America nice once more.’ So why did he not place his hand on the bible? Was he afraid he would burst into flames? Maz, Cumbernauld
Monday was a tragic day for the planet. Neil Dance, Birmingham
Public inquiries
‘Can we get an inquiry into Brexit lies?’
Given we now have extra inquiries into the grooming gangs and one into Southport killer Axel Rudakubana, plainly if we make sufficient noise, we are able to get public inquiries into every little thing.
Can we due to this fact all make some noise to have an inquiry on the Brexit lies Pedro, Hammersmith
Taking money isn’t at all times to keep away from tax
‘They only need 100% of the money’
Henry (MetroTalk, Mon) says these outlets who solely take money are ‘presumably’ doing it to keep away from declaring their true turnover to HMRC.
He clearly doesn’t know that the explanation some outlets choose to take money is that they get 100 per cent of the retail worth, whereas if clients select to pay by card or cellphone, the bank card corporations or banks cost the outlets a share for utilizing that choice. Roger, London
‘Bank card corporations fleece native sincere people for his or her service’
Sadly, Henry should stay in a excessive crime society if all his native merchants are defrauding the income. Small-town companies wrestle to compete with the oligopoly of ‘price-fixing’ supermarkets and different multinationals.
To compound the issues of those sincere native people, the bank card corporations fleece them for his or her service, therefore why so many choose money.
It’s refreshing to see money utilization rising post-Covid. Perhaps it’s as a result of we care about our reliable native outlets and companies. Phil B, Brighton
‘It’s propaganda to make us go cashless’
I’m sick to dying of individuals wrongly stating that companies go cash-only to both keep away from paying tax or launder cash.
That is utterly unfaithful and is a part of the propaganda of card corporations and cashless companies to attempt to power a cashless society.
So far as ‘avoiding paying tax’, take a look at all the large corporations which were within the information for paying no tax or significantly lower than they need to – the gross sales made by these giants have been probably paid in predominately card transactions.
A cashless society will make thousands and thousands of individuals unemployed to gas the company greed of folks that have already got method an excessive amount of cash. Debbie, Croydon
Guess what number of enjoying fields the Tories bought off between 1979 and 1997…
‘That’s nothing…’
I’d like to hitch Martin (MetroTalk, Mon) in countering Madeline (Fri), who blamed Tony Blair for promoting off faculty enjoying fields. Sure, the Labour authorities did dump greater than 200 enjoying fields between 1997 and 2010. Nonetheless, this was nothing compared to the earlier Conservative authorities between 1979 and 1997, who’re reported to have bought off greater than 10,000! Mike, Braintree
‘There’s nothing inflation-busting about it.’
May Chris (MetroTalk, Tue) clarify why my 4.5 per cent pay rise is ‘inflation-busting’ when inflation was at 11 per cent in 2022. Doug, Witham
‘The Tories are criticising Labour for something they will consider’
The Tories’ time in energy was a litany of incompetence, greed and corruption, from junior ministers as much as the PM. Now they’re criticising Labour for something they will consider. Discuss concerning the pot calling the kettle black. Andrew, Hornchurch
‘Laura was proper to name out ‘pompous’ host Madeley’
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‘I don’t watch Good Morning Britain when Madeley’s on it anymore’
Is it solely me who finds Richard Madeley probably the most pompous and worsening of all of the TV presenters?
Having watched his dismissive and know-it-all interview strategies just a few years in the past, I actually don’t watch Good Morning Britain when he’s on any extra.
If he disagrees with the particular person he interviews, he doesn’t hear and, in some instances, merely tries to deride the particular person.
Though his spat with climate forecaster Laura Tobin sounds trivial – she referred to as him out for not paying any consideration to her report – it sums up the person, he doesn’t hear after which asks the query already answered. Not search for a TV presenter, except you might be Alan Partridge.
Oh, and telling his viewers in August that it was time to ‘lay off’ Prince Andrew made me and plenty of others offended. Corin, London
When will meals producers get with this system and add cooking directions?
‘Air fryers have been round for a number of years’
Why are we nonetheless not having air fryer settings included on cooking directions?
I can solely title a few producers who do and but these units have been round for a number of years.
I boil my breakfast egg in a single. Ten minutes at 120C for medium/tender, 14 for exhausting boiled and no saucepan to clean up. Joan, Sutton
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