Geoff Hoon (“Hoon in defensive mode on day of claims and accusations”, 6 February) claims that he didn’t bother to try to correct the newspapers’ false interpretation of the 45-minute warning because, in his experience, the media were loath to carry corrections. “The British dream” of Michael Howard would always be a nightmare for many more. The nightmare would be made worse by the impossible dream endlessly being dangled in front of us, for example, in the form of endless consumerist adverts.As the anti-globalisation movement has been saying for some time now, we badly need a sustainable, egalitarian, Green alternative to the kind of nonsense offered to us by mainstream political parties.RUPERT READDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of East AngliaNorwich Tainted Blair must go Sir: The recent statements of the former Defence Intelligence official Brian Jones give further credence, if not categorical proof, that the September dossier was sexed up by Campbell and Blair. Is it not now well overdue for this most dishonourable of prime ministers finally to do the honourable thing and go?Is it not also in the best interests of Labour’s chances of regaining some of its lost trust and giving it the best chance of retaining power at the next election to be led into that election by someone relatively untainted by the WMD scandal?And finally, wouldn’t Peter Mandelson be well advised, rather than publicly castigating Labour’s Iraq rebels, to keep a low profile since it is the dishonest propaganda and spin methods of him and his like that have been instrumental in getting the Government and the country into this unholy mess?JOHN da SILVALewes, East SussexSir: It gets worse and worse. So, he must believe that everyone can make it to the top.This is, of course, nonsense. This is the absurd lie that underlies capitalism, in Britain, in America, and everywhere Not everyone can make it to the top, in an unequal society. Police, who are instructed to halt all suspicious movement of litter bins on public transport, are working on the theory that the fudge stall may have been set up as a terrorist front.Well? Did you spot that the story about the fudge stall at Paddington was a load of hooey ? Well done!Of course, the others were all fabricated as well But that’s modern journalism for you.

Redlane agrees that he was taking the bin to Paddington, but says he runs a small stall on the concourse selling fudge and is so appalled by the litter, which he believes drives customers away, that he was taking his own waste paper basket to work. The elderly earl has no comment to make, as he has been senile for years and has no idea what is going on.4) A man has been arrested for carrying an empty litter bin on a London Tube train.Sidney Redlane has been accused of taking the bin to Paddington in order to facilitate an explosion. Cause of death was, it seems, a fatal accident on a golf course.However, it now turns out that Angus – who had an aversion to inheriting the title or the extensive house and death duties of the earl – had faked his death to escape the inheritance. Ever since litter bins have been banned from certain major London rail termini, in case terrorists left bombs in them, it has been almost impossible to get rid of litter or indeed to conceal a bomb. After the fourth round, viewers were so fed up with the chirpy Geordie antics of Ant and Dec that more voted for them to be thrown out than any of the celebs.

This voting was discounted, and the information suppressed by the TV company, as it would have put them in a bad light.3) The elderly Earl of Strathgowrie, who has no children, was due to be succeeded when he dies by his nearest of kin, his nephew, the Hon Angus Telfer. Angus emigrated to Australia many years ago and his death was reported from there about four years ago. And Mr Hoon, of course.”2) The voting on the recent series of “I’m a Celebrity.. Get Me Out of Here!” did not go quite as was reported on TV. So I took off my body armour and went to give it to him, 30 yards away. As I was handing it over, a grenade thrown by a dissident landed just where I had been a minute earlier and went off!”If we had had enough equipment, and we had all had body armour, I would have been hit by the grenade and killed I can only thank the MoD for being so inefficient. One of the commonest delusions we suffer from is that we keep up with the news.