Tony Blair’s reply to Rupert Murdoch may not have been “the most subtle and inoffensive ‘f*ck off’ in history”, as Steve Pound MP asserts (Letters, 23 December). We should not forget, especially in this season, that, asked by King Herod to go back and tell him exactly where they had found the Messiah, the wise men from the east, having presented gold, frankincense and myrrh, “left for their own country by another road” (Matt.2:12).
Fr Alec Mitchell
Manchester
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