Ever since he began writing his column, John Parry has trodden a very fine line between fair comment and pandering to people's worst instincts on a number of issues. On July 14, he overstepped that line.

At a time when fascist thugs are targeting those who appear to be even vaguely foreign, playing upon people's concerns that so-called bogus asylum seekers are receiving preferential treatment is either unforgivably stupid or calculated to incite violence.

Whether people are fleeing persecution in their own countries or are economic migrants should be completely irrelevant. We are all human beings with the right to a decent standard of living, wherever we may seek it.

-P.D. Jackson, Byron Street, Hove