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Letter to The Daily Telegraph
30th June 2010
Dear Miss Riddell,
With reference to your column on law and order over the weekend, I am afraid that your assumptions on this subject are very inaccurate.  The important point is that people are not put into jail arbitrarily; they only go to jail if they have committed a crime.  [...]

Letter to The Wall Street Journal
22nd June 2010
Dear Mr Steele,
May I congratulate you on your very fine article in the Wall Street Journal today.
You are slightly inaccurate, however, about the details of Clinton’s famous Camp David meetings with Arafat and Barak.  What happened was that Clinton took Arafat aside first, and asked him to state [...]

Letter to The Times
21st June 2010
Dear Mr Smith,
In your column on Friday you bring up an interesting point, namely how often do extraordinarily talented people appear? I suggest that people who are out of the ordinary do not come like water out of a tap – there are long gaps before they appear, and then [...]

Letter to The Daily Telegraph
8th June 2010
Dear Mr Johnston,
With reference to your column today about ID cards, I would suggest to you that most of the illegal immigrants who come to this country do so through the Channel Tunnel.  Now, to come through the Channel Tunnel, they must have come through France, and perhaps through [...]

Letter to The Daily Telegraph
7th June 2010
Dear Mr Brent,
With reference to your letter in the Telegraph, on the subject of gun control, I must tell you that the number of guns in any country has nothing to do with the number of people killed.  If you look at Switzerland, you will see they have the [...]

Letter to the Internation Herald Tribune
3rd June 2010
Dear Mr Oz,
I was most interested in your article today, about Israel, and, with respect, I suggest that some of your statements are somewhat inaccurate.  For example, you say “No idea has ever been defeated by force”.  I am not sure that the Chinese, who have been living [...]

Letter to the Financial Times
1st June 2010
Dear Sir,
Mr David Beffert, in your editions on Saturday, does not grasp that the difference between private and public discrimination is not “a neat distinction”, but it is the whole point.  It was public discrimination that had to be prohibited.  The white line in the buses, the separate Rest [...]

Letter to the Internation Herald Tribune
2nd June 2010
Dear Sir,
In his article yesterday, Guénaël Mettraux makes several inaccurate statements.  He argues that the charges of abuse of authority, lodged against Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón, must be dismissed.   Now, the first thing that one must understand about Judge Garzón is that he, not only admits, but he [...]

Letter to The Times
27th May 2010
Dear Sir,
It is quite tiresome how Left Wing people keep hammering on about the question of prison population, although the facts are completely against them.  The latest is Lord Woolf in your columns today.
It is repeated ad nauseum that we have the greatest number of prisoners in Europe.  This is [...]

Letter to The Daily Telegraph
25th May 2010
Dear Miss Riddell,
In your column today, when you refer to “the poor’s cry for help”, you are assuming that all of the money that is spent by the government is indispensable, and that any cuts in government spending will have painful results.  I would suggest to you, with respect, [...]