12 JUNE 2004, Page 33

Don't blame it on D-Day

From Ian Flintoff Sir: Simon Heffer (`The heroes won the war — and lost the peace', 5 June) should understand that any country which becomes obsessed with monetary policies and economics as the sole criteria of national success lets more important social, cultural and moral questions fly through the window. It was not the generation of D-Day that made Britain the valuefree nightmare that much of it is today, but the small-horizon economists and politicians who can only shape issues of national concern in their own diminished image. In peacetime especially we need women and men of wisdom, culture and vision to lead us. We have sadly had none. What good is all this wealth when much of what it is spent on is crap?

Ian Flintoff

London SW6