From Tara McCormack
Sir: Noel Malcolm ('Yes, there were mass killings', 4 December) is a man so little able to tolerate opinions that differ from his own that he will not remain in any organi- sation that publishes articles he disagrees with. He resigned from the Centre for Poli- cy Studies because it dared to publish Mark Littman's booklet Kosovo: Law and Diplo- macy, a superb, calm and rational work simply questioning the legality of the Nato war against Yugoslavia. He also resigned from the British Helsinki Human Rights Group because they dared to report on the suffering of the ordinary citizens of Yugoslavia.
Dr Malcolm, I am sure, avoids most newspapers and television and radio pro- grammes for fear of encountering opinions that he dislikes or facts that he cannot stomach. He otherwise would have been aware that, far from John Laughland pursu- ing what he sneeringly calls a 'one-man campaign', there are many others (Robert Fisk, John Pilger, Noam Chomslcy, Auberon Waugh, Stephen Glover, Edward Heath, Tony Benn, the late Alan Clark, Tam Dalyell, Alice Mahon, Germaine Greer, Taki, Harold Pinter, Edward Said, Bruce Kent, Arthur Scargill, to name but a few who have spoken and written against the bombing and its consequences) ques- tioning the bombing, its causes and its effects. I only wish that he had also boy- cotted The Spectator and spared us another biased and poisonous work stuffed with 'gross misrepresentations' and twisted logic. Tara McCormack
15 Pond House, Pond Place, London SW3
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