EVEN the Evening Press has now run an article on Big Brother. Really! (January 14).

A more puerile programme could never have been tailored for Mr Blair's dumbed-down British public, with newspapers full of the antics of self promoting, inadequate buffoons who inhabit that fantasy world.

The only credits must go to the programme's innovators, who accurately judged that the nadir of viewers' taste could sink even lower than "Eurotrash".

I write this in ignorance, having seen no more than two minutes of either, which was more than enough.

Mick Snowden,

Manor Farm Bungalow,

Amotherby,

Malton.

Updated: 10:04 Thursday, January 19, 2006