The Spectator

Letters | 31 October 2009

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issue 31 October 2009

Squeezing out democracy

Sir: Melanie Phillips did a first-rate job in pinning down the Islamofascist ‘elephant in the room’ (‘The clash of uncivilisations’, 24 October). There was, however, one area not touched on: how the Islamists and the BNP are really two sides of the same coin.

I live six miles from the BNP heartland of Burnley and stood as a Labour council candidate in a nearby borough last year.

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