Summary
LETTERS to The Herald on serious subjects are necessarily synoptic, and may use symbolism (dread word) as shorthand to convey layers of meaning understood by its generally sophisticated readership. This may confuse those lacking the subtlety to go beyond a plodding literal reading. This does not however excuse the use of cheap debating tricks such as introducing the odd word or contextual transposition of text that purport to represent views that traduce its author, as practised by Mr James Barrowman - a regular apologist in The Herald for New Labour - in misrepresenting mine (July 27).
My views on the "atrocity" - the very word I used - in London were recently printed in your pages (July 14): "The indiscriminate murder of all innocents is morally repugnant and inexcusable."See the full content of this document
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Merely Seeking to Explain and to Understand
This is somewhat different from Mr Barrowman's misrepresentation:
"Civilians being blown up on their way to work is not, apparently, an attack on their wa...See the full content of this document
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