The faction who do not want Nick Griffin and David Irving to speak at the Oxford Union's free speech forum next Monday are surely showing facile tendencies by attempting to squash these the freedom of speech of these two 'gentlemen'.

Weyman Bennett is especially weak-kneed in his fear that Griffin or Irving pose any real threat at the meeting.

I have every sympathy for Mala Tribich and I think she is a very brave lady.

The meeting would surely give the floor a chance to put David Irving on the spot to prove beyond doubt his non-Holocaust whimperings and to pin Nick Griffin to the floor about his racist rantings.

I hope that I am not going to encounter such antagonism when, in the next two years, I front the New ENP (English National Party).

CHARLES CROSS Watson Crescent Sandleigh Abingdon