SIR - It would be unthinkable and deeply insulting for a national broadcaster to question the value of St Patrick on March 17 and one could imagine protests outside (Irish television station) RTE studios in Belfast and Dublin.

It would be unthinkable and deeply insulting for a national broadcaster to question the worth of the prophet Mohammed during Ramadan, and if the cartoon protests of 2006 are a guide, there would be riots outside British Embassies in Islamic countries.

So how is it that the English are so easily attacked by the national broadcaster on their own special day?

The Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 on St George's Day featured a debate on whether St George's Day is relevant in a multicultural society.

This trotted out the same old nonsense that England is a home of immigrants, even devaluing the figure of St George himself as he was a foreigner.

The piece was as devastating an assault on the English people and English culture as one could imagine. Like a modern day dragon, the BBC took aim with a fiery attack on the English. Independent newspaper hack Yasmin Alibhai Brown was on hand to condemn St George's Day celebrations for being too Anglo-Saxon and demanded the day should celebrate the multicultural aspects of England today.

MP Andrew Rossendale tried hard to defend the English but was forced to define Englishness' in a way that no Korean, no Scot or no Irishman would be asked to define Koreaness', Scottishness' or Irishness'.

The discussion was insulting and thoroughly offensive. No other nation gets attacked as much as the English by the BBC, no other nation is treated with such contempt by the self-serving liberals who make up the senior management of that Corporation have for the English.

A latter day St George is needed to slay the modern dragon of political correctness which infests the BBC.

Nick Chance, Severn Stoke.