SO OUR 'friend' Mr Duly, from the Freedom Association, has entered the debate in defence of the disgraced ex-MP Robert Kilroy-Silk and his crude outburst against 'Arabs', in the name of freedom of expression.

I bet Mr Duly will not be defending the Liberal Democrat MP who last week merely expressed her understanding of why some Palestinian youths become suicide bombers.

These are the double standards the extreme right of the British establishment and their US backers always deal in. That is why people like Kilroy-Silk do not deserve our sympathy.

Berating 'political correctness' is coded language for resentment at not being allowed to be sexist, racist and openly illiberal like they used to be when the British and US empires ruled the world - or thought they did.

Here is a word of advice for Mr Duly et al. Nobody can be allowed to lump whole nations, races, sexes, ideologies and religions together with sweeping prejudiced generalisations.

There are plenty of diseased minds in Britain and the US who share Kilroy-Silk's sentiments and who were falling over themselves to defend him. I would be very surprised, however, if any of them attended the Holocaust Day commemoration in Lancaster on Tuesday.

Steve Metcalfe, Palatine Avenue, Lancaster.