In the United States no foreign national can own an American newspaper. Regrettably the same is not true in Britain.

Much of the right wing media in this country is owned by North American business interests, most notably by News International, who also own the Fox Network.

The Fox Network is perhaps the primary media supporter of the American administration's neo-Conservatives, who were instrumental in the invasion of Iraq on the pretext of looking for weapons of mass destruction.

Totally supportive of the neo-Conservative line over Iraq, these British newspapers have now turned their attention once again to another American target, the economic power they see as their greatest rival the European Union.

Is it in American interests to see Britain as part of a coherent, integrated Europe? They would much prefer to see Britain as a client state of the USA, dis-associated as much as possible from the EU.

Therefore these papers seek to undermine our European links at every opportunity. Whose interests do these papers have at heart those of the British people or those of their North American owners?

Next time you read an anti-European diatribe from one of these papers, just remember for whom they are the mouthpiece!

Steve Squires

Trowbridge