Amid all the debate about BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time, one distinguished correspondent's contribution threatens to get lost in the mix. Over to former Sunday Telegraph editor, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne. "In considering whether a racist should be allowed a seat on Question Time, it is chastening to remember that most of my octogenarian generation of British, high as well as low, believed in white superiority, which in no way meant that they were necessarily fascists," he writes in a letter to the Times today. "Indeed, most of us had fought in the war against Nazism. As it happens, I am no longer a racist, but the arguments that made me one in the relatively recent past still do not seem to me to be so abhorrent as to be out of order in civilised debate. Unquestionably, the leader of the BNP – an unsavoury character – is not the right man to do such arguments justice, but that is because of his bigotry rather than the views themselves." If only Griffin wasn't such a bigot, he'd be perfect for the job!
