OPEN LETTER TO MICHAEL HOWARD:
After the last four years, I couldn't think of any reason to be keen to see the re-election of Tony Blair. This weekend, though, I have inspired and energised to actually actively campaign for his re-election and to see your nasty, racist party consigned to the past.

How dare you appear on Today and prattle that "communities" cannot absorb newcomers? I don't know if it even occurs to you how many families in the modern world are comprised of people who come from more than just the next village.

My wife is American-born, and she has had no trouble being absorbed into the communities in which we live and work. I'm sorry you feel that her tax contributions are some sort of drain on the economy.

I'm sorry that someone who has a family which has benefitted from this nation's openess and welcoming attitude to those in need of shelter should sink to playing the race card. Would you have had people counting during the 1940s to make sure that we didn't let "too many" of those fleeing Hitler get past Dover?

You have no honour; no feeling; and I hope that your desperate and squalid little ploy leaves you with no MPs.

 
LOOK WHAT YOU'VE ACHIEVED BUSH: Had there not happened to be a press photographer there, this killing of a father driving his family around in Tal Afar would have been lost in the already unaccounted numbers of civilian deaths in Bush's Iraq.

 
OH MY GOD, THERE ARE GAYS EVERYWHERE: As Bush gets signed on for another four years, let's ponder his legacy: a country where a happy Spongebob Squarepants tape aimed at promoting tolerance is slammed as being a subtle attempt to turn kids gay.

 
THOSE WHO FORGET THE PAST...: While US school boards fight themselves into pieces over whether there should be a sticker in textbooks saying that "evolution is just a theory" (oddly, nobody has yet insisted that bibles in schools carry a sticker saying "the creation is just an idea"), there are more worrying problems with the education of American youth: 63% of people in a typical US city didn't know what Auschwitz was. If something isn't done soon, it won't even be impossible to use Nazi as a term of abuse.