Letter: In brief

Tuesday 25 August 1998 00:02 BST

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Sir: A bunch of howling African bishops visit London and condemn gay people in their host country as bestial, but Professor Brian Brown (Letters, 24 August) thinks it is "racialist" for Philip Hensher to call them awful scum. Does he also think it is "racialist" to call Mobutu, Amin or Bokassa murdering dictators, or is it only homophobic bigotry that he chooses to excuse in the name of anti-racism?

SIMON EDGE

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