Robin Shepherd: A portrait of the extremist mainstream in Great Britain, a man with a problem with Jewish names - 'Back in 2003, Richard Ingrams, one of Britain's best known columnists and a co-founder of the satirical weekly Private Eye wrote in the Observer (sister newspaper on Sunday to the Guardian) the following gem about his attitude to Israel and the Jews: "I have developed a habit," he said, "when confronted by letters to the editor in support of the Israeli government to look at the signature to see if the writer has a Jewish name. If so, I tend not to read it." As I have said on many occasions (see previous entry for example), there is now no price to be paid in mainstream Britain for such attitudes. They are taken as normal. Now consider his latest piece of writing, this time in the Independent, as an example of what happens when such "normal" attitudes are allowed to fester...'