Some time ago, I wrote criticising your decision to publish an article by Denis MacShane, believing that by his disgrace and discrediting as an MP he had forfeited his credibility or claim on our attention. So it is right that I should write to you now, in appreciation of his article on the Rotherham scandal (“Our wilful blindness let the children down”, 6 September). In contrast to the silence, denial and evasion on the part of most of the others involved, he comes forward to accep