Peter Hyde, Driffield. READING Frank Field’s article about children going hungry during school holidays because of poverty tends to make me cross (The Yorkshire Post, September 15). Poverty is relative and much of it is because families put the possession of the latest big screen TV and the most up-to-date mobile phone or other gadget ahead of the essentials of life. Keeping up with the Joneses has often become more important than food. If we want to know what real poverty was like, we have only to go back to my childhood in the 1930s and ‘40s. Father was a labourer who was on a very low wage and yet we were still fed properly. Although we didn’t have the latest footwear and designer clothes, we always had something to wear, albeit hand-me-downs.
Read more at: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-road-safety-course-better-than-slap-on-wrist-1-8762026
47 Years of Cowardice Allowing Iranian Brutality. Compare To Apartheid. Iran Has Been CONSIDERABLY Worse. Consider The Nations Who Have NOT Aligned Against This Wretched Regime But Did Against South Africa. Double Standards of The Very Worst Kind!
C harles Moore . Trump is a sinner but by disarming Iran he could be doing the Lord’s work. Christianity accepts it’s not always wrong to f...
-
Franklin Graham preached in Glasgow, launches new fund to defend religious freedom in the UK. Staff writer Franklin Graham preaching at ...
-
Nigel Farage’s general election spending will not be investigated by the elections watchdog, it was confirmed. Labour had called on the E...
