Please send letters for the website, clearly marked FORUM, to Julia Dawson at: julia.dawson@emap.com or The Architectural Review, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ, England. View from Ramallah reaction POLITICS?? STICK TO WHAT YOU DO BEST… SIR: Since when has AR become a political journal? It was extraordinary to see 4 entire pages of the May issue (‘View from Ramallah’ by T. Kay) dedicated to such a one-sided and blinkered view of an extremely complex, already propaganda-drenched and manipulated situation.The crisis concerning the Middle East is already thoroughly misrepresented by much of the press and media, and history is being rewritten by the minute to suit whatever arguments are flying around at any one time. War and conflict are never pretty and what one individual sees can not (especially in this situation) relay a truthful representation of a crisis as a whole. If you are going to further the political scope of your journal, at least let us hear what the many different types of peoples are saying and doing. In this case, there is huge range of people who live in Israel, which is arguably one of the most culturally integrated and cultural countries in the world. And then there are all the other conflicts in the world: architects live in those places as well. AR is a fabulous architectural journal – please, stick to what you do best. Yours etc J S TARRANT Architect, Bracknell, Berks Proponent for fair & unbiased journalism