The late socialist historian E P Thompson in his collection Sir, Writing By Candlelight, regarded letter writers to The Times as representative of rather reactionary and provincial perspectives (Thompson himself was robustly provincial but not of course reactionary)
The letters (28th January) published on ICE and Minneapolis are strongly critical of the far right Times columnist Melanie Phillips.
They do stand up for the rule of law (which ICE certainly does not) and echo what Thompson would have understood as the Freeborn Englishman of the 1820s and 1830s. Someone who expected some liberty of thought, the right to protest and perhaps most particularly the right to be left alone by authority
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Melanie Phillips lost her marbles some time ago. She’s a pathetic little right wing extremist who delights in murder. Why anybody employs her is a mystery.