Jane. Your letter is a fine challenge. Mahmood's response is focus-grouped bilge.

It was a nasty, vindictive response to a reasonable question. It was also logically incoherent. This was my first thought also.

It's groundbait for the public though. C4 News voxpop people repeated it almost verbatim, 'They have jewellery, cars and houses.'

It was an unnecessarily angry and incoherent response to a reasonable challenge. Seriously...immigration causes racism, so cut immigration and racism disappears? And, here's my out of context experience.

Never seen her operate before. She strikes me as deeply prickly and unpleasant.

It's grotesque and weird. Often explained as 'pull up the drawbridge I'm comfortable,' but I think it's more a kind of overjustification effect as you suggest.

Times, Telegraph and Sky reports yesterday as briefed by Home Office.

That sodabread stuff is brown or white card. Runs and hides.

It started with Starmer's 'island of strangers' comment. Much of it, no doubt, is coming now from a hostile press, but government is about managing the message. They appear to be devoid of skills here.

Thanks Warren, but why oh why dress this up in the sickening language of fascism... tearing the country apart, golden ticket, soft touch etc?

With a relish that is pathological in my experience.

Let's have Denmark's taxes and public services as well.

Are these dark forces in the room with you now, Shabana?