Titley, (June 19) no one can condone the savagery, committed by hooligans, during this year's Euro 2000 football contest, but once again he and those like him tar everyone else in the country with the same brush.

His implication being: if you are proud of your country you are a mindless thug.

It is quite clear he is one of those people who like to go around blaming this country for every ill in the world, because of its imperial past i.e slavery and genocide.

For years now this country has been attacked and belittled by forces within and from without, evidence of this is clear from Hollywood in their latest fantasies from World War Two - U571. Just wait till you see Mel Gibson's latest anti-English film, The Patriot.

One good thing from this page of the paper is the commitment that Yvie Holder of the York Racial Equality Network, will treat all those cases she deals with the same, black or white.

Let us hope she is able to stick to this and not be pressured, like so many other organisations, to put one group before another.

D Foster,

Acting Chairman, York and District British National Party, York.