Recently, reference was made to the hostile attitude towards would-be immigrants caused by the national media.

Of course, the newspapers form people's attitudes to everything, particularly in regard to Europe. Propaganda by a handful of media moguls, plus that of BNP, UKIP and Baroness Thatcher has produced a sickening degree of anti-Europeanism among the general public.

Yet, in 1975, attitudes generally were pro-European. People's outlooks are very different today.

In the late 1990s we had a graphic example of the pathetic absurdity of this anti-Europe campaign.

The vagaries of football competition produced a match between England and Germany.

Much of the media treated this episode more as a war than a sporting contest.

Instead of the attitude being "We have beaten this lot once before" (1966), an Alf Garnett type pose was stuck, "We have beaten this lot three times before" - adding 1918, 1945 and 1966.

I am sure that, 60 years after the Second World War more British people look under the bed to see if there are any Jerries (alleged jack-booted variety) there than did so in the 1940s!

D E MARGRETT,

Worcester.