IN the letter of mine you kindly published on August 19, I stated that I was ignorant of the causes of riots and looting which recently beset some of our cities.
Thanks to the other contributors on that day, however, I now realise that they were the fault of politicians, bankers, police, journalists, foreigners, society, Richard Dawkins and Charles Darwin.
May I express my heartiest gratitude to all concerned for clearing that one up, but, for some strange reason, I keep pondering the remark of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez that “man accepts as logical and reasonable everything that tallies with his own egoism, placing it before reality”.
DAVID DIMENT Riverside Court Oxford
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