The best letters to the editor of 2022
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The Times
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🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Every day, hundreds of readers write into The Times and The Sunday Times. In a year when the news didn’t seem to stop, the letters editors of the two papers pick out their highlights.
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- Andrew Riley, Letters Editor, The Times.
- Stephen Bleach, Letters Editor, The Sunday Times.
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| 0:00.0 | From jet engines to space rockets, telephones to computers, the world has seen spectacular |
| 0:06.1 | change in the last hundred years, and the pace of progress is getting faster and faster. |
| 0:12.0 | From electric cars to the netaverse, drone deliveries to climate solutions and genetic |
| 0:16.6 | sequencing, we're investing in the companies that are not just changing the world today, |
| 0:21.4 | but are also shaping the future. |
| 0:23.8 | The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, managed by Bayley Gifford, invest in progress |
| 0:29.0 | capital at risk. |
| 0:37.7 | The letters page of the Times is an institution. |
| 0:42.1 | Over the course of more than two centuries, it's become a key part of the national conversation. |
| 0:49.3 | Every day, hundreds of people write into the Times and the Sunday Times with their own |
| 0:54.4 | experience of the news, their opinions, their expertise and anecdotes, or perhaps just |
| 1:01.5 | a witty repost to the headlines. |
| 1:04.8 | But the Times' letters page doesn't just reflect the news, it often ends up making it. |
| 1:11.4 | The Archbishop of Canterbury and York have written a letter in the Times today saying |
| 1:15.6 | that the government policy of sending migrants to Rwanda should shame us as a nation. |
| 1:23.1 | Earlier this year, when there were fears that Boris Johnson would call yet another election, |
| 1:28.7 | he was thwarted by a constitutional convention, the Lassels Principle, that was only ever written |
| 1:35.1 | down in a letter to the Times. |
| 1:39.7 | But the letters page isn't just a forum for the great and the good to express important |
| 1:45.0 | ideas, it also allows readers to share intimate insights into their personal lives. |
| 1:52.7 | I had panic attacks without knowing what these were, nightmares and agrophobia. |
| 1:58.6 | I'm writing this through tears of sadness, rage and incredulity. |
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