Yes, J E Howard (Letters, February 11), you are right. We're in this together, against the Licence Bill and the war.

Let's just make it spikier, on all fronts, please. Morris dancers, death-metal sitar players, ranting poets - if we don't stop New Labour's plan to turn us into the 51st state we're all going to bomb - literally.

And on the subject of poodles (The Argus, February 8), I think it's far more apt to describe Blair as Bush's amoeba.

No heart, no head, no brain, no guts and no spine.

-Attila the Stockbroker, Victoria Road, Southwick