Letter: Not keen on America

Sir: I enjoyed Denis MacShane's entertaining review of my book, The Sex-Change Society (16 November). However, I'm afraid Denis has allowed the red mist of Europe to cloud his reading. The reason I cite so many American sources is because I believe that American attitudes and values have had a profound and almost entirely malign influence upon relations between men and women and upon family stability in Britain. This influence has been far greater than that of any European society. Far from believing that "everything good comes from America", I am saying precisely the opposite.

MELANIE PHILLIPS

London W12