Racism hysteria

ONCE again, Gerald Warner hits the bull's-eye (Insight, 4 April).

His description of political distraction from immigration concerns by means of false "race" hysteria and anti-free speech laws is as accurate as his illustration of "racist" inversion in the lack of such a response to a black British resident complaining of white-skinned immigrants.

If I say I wish the British population were, as before, overwhelmingly white and its official religion nominally Christian (true) I would immediately be branded racist (untrue). The attraction of the previous state is its stability, and while immigration is only one element in the current lack of this, it is a powerful feature, especially when allied to pressure groups aggressively promoting "rights" for sub-divisions.

Robert Dow, Tranent