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South Africa's New Apartheid

From Mr J.L. Rushburne Sir: So the ANC government in South Africa is hosting a world conference on combating racism ('White is right', 25 August). The hypocrisy of this project,......

From Mr Roger Brown Sir: Andrew Kenny Fails To Mention

that the Atlantic slave trade, engendered by white Europeans, was responsible for the export of ten million black Africans in horrific circumstances — an early Holocaust. It was......

From Mr Chris Carmichael Sir: Andrew Kenny Suggests That The

campaign against slavery was prompted 'by Christian conscience'. This is tenuously true, but the great impetus to abolitionism resulted from the age of scientific enlightenment......

Ageing Makes You Fat

From Margaret Miller Sir: Ninety per cent of men advertising for 'true love' require that women be thin ('My love agony' by David Lovibond, 25 August). Because they are in......

Saladin Days

From Mr Bernard Goodwin Sir: James Delingpole (Arts, 18 August) repeats one of the common fallacies of current political correctness about the Crusades, when he says that......

Jobs For Asylum-seekers

From Mr R. Reed Sir: Why is it that politicians from David Blunkett to Ann Widdecombe all agree that the genuine asylum-seeker should be allowed to stay, yet all economic......

Hitler And Queen Mother

From Mr Andrew Roberts Sir: David Irving's defence of his claim in his second volume of Churchill's War that the Queen Mother supported a peace deal with Hitler in 1940 — that......