Brexit and fascism
Please could I draw Molly Scott Cato’s attention to part of Advices & queries number 17: ‘Do not allow the strength of your convictions to betray you into making statements or allegations that are unfair or untrue.’
I found parts of her ‘Thought for the week’ (16 August) hurtful. I don’t know her precise definition of a Brexiteer, but I believed in Brexit and still do. While I think it could have been handled rather better and with more attention to detail, I am no fascist and do not disdain intellectuals (or experts generally). Neither do I describe anyone contemptuously. I would suggest that most people who voted for Brexit had reasons for doing so that had nothing in common with fascism.
Dorothy Searle
Gaza
I would like to endorse the comments of Nicola Grove (2 August) concerning our response to the horrific developments in Gaza.
Our ‘visceral emotional responses’ are indeed engendered by what we see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears.
The atrocities were promised by Israeli ministers, are videoed and uploaded to TikTok by their own soldiers, reported upon by numerous aid agencies, and opposed by many Jews, secular and religious.
If we dare not speak truth to power, if this does not move us to go beyond anaemic observations intended to discomfort no one, then whatever will?
Peter Bellenes
