Hague is welcome to sail away on Battleship Nostalgia. The Guardian Rear Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles sounds like a rum old chap. But their wonders, he believes, have limits. Women's work is to create life, nurture life and protect life.
Mother love is the strongest of all human emotions, and is indeed the basis of civilisation.
Major John Cann from Ascot agrees. Just below, Pastor Ken Slater is preparing the stable boys for the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Britain, according to the Telegraph letters page, is indeed a scary place. When it comes to gender politics and sexual orientation its postbag reads like an unholy alliance between Eminem and the squires from the shires. To be fair there is occasional dissent - the day after the page had been transformed into a homophobic pamphlet, there were several pleas for sanity.