16 JULY 1994, page 25

Sir: I Am Enormously Grateful To You For Publishing...

Congdon's article. What the article did for me was to give intellectual respectability to my visceral Euro-scepticism. I have always felt, in a Colonel Blimpish sort of way,......

The Dna Made Me Do It

Sir:Richard Dawkins informs us that we are all only survival machines driven by our dig- ital DNA. All else is mere 'vitalism' (`The telephone exchange of life', 11June, 1994).......

Onwards And Upwards

Sir: Andrew Kenny has completely missed the inspirational power of the Apollo land- ings on the moon (Armstrong, Newton and God', 2 July). Whatever one's thoughts on the......

On Shoelessness

Sir: The tale told by Martyn Harris about children walking to school without shoes is not so dubious as David Williams suggests (Letters, 2 July). At the age of ten, respectably......

Letters Island Views

Sir: Tim Congdon's recent article entitled 'Time for Britain to rediscover itself' (25 June) continues his defence of plucky little England standing on its own in the world and......

Earthy English

Sir: Carla Powell (`She's Italian, you know', 9 July) is perfectly right, of course. We English are a down-to-earth lot. But one is, perhaps, entitled to note that the abstract......

Whose Essex Man?

Sir: Richard Littlejohn in his Diary (9 July) repeats the old chestnut that Simon Heifer was the inventor of 'Essex Man'. That is not so. Essex Man was discovered by me (You......