Let everyone have their say; VIEWPOINTS

SO Una, from Ely, doesn't like Dan O'Neill and won't read his articles. Couldn't resist taking a peek last week though could she? That's the thing about our Dan, he may be provocative but his articles are compelling. What I like too are the reactions they provoke. Even dear old Santa Claus (alias Bryan Prescott, Viewpoints, November 28) interrupted his busy schedule to have a go.

The trouble is that both these correspondents missed the main point of Dan's article; the BBC refusing to allow people of no religious faith to make a contribution on Thought For The Day.The BBC seems to share the view that religious people have a claim to the moral high ground and that without a belief in a supernatural being or divine creator you are an unethical degenerate. We live in a democracy, so why doesn't the BBC exercise its duty of impartiality and allow the atheists, agnostics and humanists to have their say? Or, better still, Give Dan O'Neill a slot!