Elon Musk is fanning the flames of the current unrest in England
I AM naturally concerned with the current unrest and appalled by the remarks of people like Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and others.
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Surely we all need to take a step back and recognise the need to let go of our attachment to particular identities – of geographical origin, religious tradition, class and all other kinds of labels – and thus affirm our universal humanity: our core human values and virtues of goodness, truth and beauty and of course unity or love, which are or should be the living values and joys of mature human beings that across the miles and down the ages underpin and overarch all and everything.
Charles Mugleston
Felixstowe, Suffolk
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