Firstly I would like to thank the Stroud News and Journal for maintaining a balanced editorial stance on controversial issues such as 5G - we trust that this balanced stance WILL be maintained despite Joel Levy's expressed desire to silence debate and 'cancel' opposing views by regurgitating the usual shopworn and tiresome parade of smears and ad-hominem attacks against those who disagree with him.

Mr Levy has treated us to a remarkable display of mental gymnastics in his attempt to conflate concerns about 5G or pharmaceutical safety with violence or hatred of minorities. Minor variations on this circus-clown contortionist act have been playing on repeat in the corporate controlled mainstream media for months or years now. Is this really the finest argument they can muster ? Isn't it becoming a bit of a yawn now ?

Where is the assumption of good-faith in disagreement that high quality civic discourse demands ? Where is the basic decency ? I might make many criticisms of monarchy in general and King Charles and the Windsors in particular - yet I would certainly never stoop to suggesting in debate that another's royalist sympathies are rooted in some secret endorsement of the vices of Saville or Epstien. Beyond the drumbeat of repetition (AKA the 'Big Lie' propaganda technique), what possible logical connection can be made between evidence based concerns about 5G or pharmaceutical safety and violence or hatred ? This line of argument (actually mere assertion) is nonsensical and exists purely as an artifact of propaganda to discredit critics of the will of corporate interests.

Perhaps the reflexive tendency to abuse and cancel instead of engaging in real debate reveals only the paucity of reason possessed by those who are hypnotized by the mainstream narratives which Sara-Lea Small, myself and many others dispute on the basis of hard evidence - or perhaps this sinister phenomenon reveals a fear driven authoritarian tendency, a deep seated hunger to believe and defend the lies of the powerful however absurd they may be. Yet as per the old fable the clear-sighted can see the Emperor's supposed new clothes for what they are - a fabric of lies existing only in the captured imaginations of sycophants.

Kevin Towell

Stroud