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Thursday, 16 August 2018

Boris Johnson and the burqa both causing concern | Letters

Readers respond to Guardian articles by Matthew d’Ancona, Emine Saner and Polly Toynbee

Two cheers for Matthew d’Ancona’s spirited and precise nailing of the clear and present danger represented by Boris Johnson’s targeted attack on Muslim women (Boris Johnson has created a moment more divisive than ‘rivers of blood’, 13 August). His comparison with the impact and consequences of Enoch Powell’s speech is both apposite and timely. Further, Mr d’Ancona is right to point out that the rise and rise of social media makes Johnson’s dog-whistling even more dangerous than Powell’s.

But Johnson’s intervention did not appear in social media first but as a column in the Daily Telegraph – within days of resigning his cabinet position, and against the rules laid out by parliament’s advisory committee on business appointments. Since then the paper has made Johnson’s column the main driver of its news.

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