The Editor, Sir:

The Dawn Ritch column of today is a sad, sad reflection of what it used to be, and I keep reading it in the hope that somehow, sometime there will be a return to the reasoned, meaningful analysis of the past. Instead, what we have been getting over the past few years is a vitriolic, vindictive diatribe against whomever is in opposition to her favoured leader or persona.

Her view

Her Sunday piece of February 17 trampled all over Barack Obama in a way that I wondered whether I was reading the musings of a disturbed mind. But then, I recalled that she fully supported George Bush, on the basis that "at least he always speaks his mind" (her view), never mind that whatever he speaks may be inane. Her column on the US Democratic race had, of course, to find its way back to her one topic, that of pilloring Golding and glorifying Portia.

Come on, Dawn, give us some reason to continue to read your column. It no longer even has entertainment value, it simply drips with venom!

I am, etc.,

Concerned Reader