24 JANUARY 2004, Page 27

Mars reacts

From Professor Donald C. Watt Sir: John Laughland seems to believe that conspiracies are entirely the work of White Anglo-Saxon power-mongers CI believe in conspiracies', 17 January). Any fule no that they are the work of little green men from Mars. How they will avenge the dumping of a clapped-out British space taxi on them, I dread to think!

Donald Cameron Watt

London School of Economies, London WC2