{"id":73287,"date":"2017-11-30T02:15:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/clockwise-captions-causing-confusion-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T03:03:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:03:44","slug":"clockwise-captions-causing-confusion-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/clockwise-captions-causing-confusion-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Clockwise captions causing confusion | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMPs as private landlords | Dowsing | Coming out | Picture captions | Rodney BewesStephanie Lovett asks why \u201ccrippling private rent\u201d is not being addressed by politicians (Letters, 28 November). The\u00a0answer could lie in reports following the Grenfell Tower disaster which showed that 123 MPs \u2013 almost one in five \u2013 are private landlords. They include the chancellor of the exchequer, the foreign secretary, the shadow foreign secretary and the Speaker. Eighty-seven of them are Tories and 28 Labour.Nigel GannLichfield, Staffordshire\u2022 I\u2019ve tried dowsing (Letters, 28 November) and it didn\u2019t work. But according to Seamus Heaney\u2019s poem The Diviner you need to have the knack: \u201cThe bystanders would ask to have a try. \/ He handed them the rod without a word. \/ It lay dead in their grasp till nonchalantly \/ He gripped expectant wrists. The hazel stirred.\u201dGareth ReevesDurham Continue reading…
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