MAY I thank Oliver Smith for his letter in your columns in response to mine and you for publishing it.

I will confess to one point – I did write hastily and off the cuff in my letter and he is right to point this out – my apologies.

I will write again for next week completely on the cuff and suggest that most of what he writes in his letter confirms my suspicions of Dawkins’ tactics and some of them are just plain wrong.

Cyril Govier

Stonehouse