I totally help the motives behind your highlighting of the 80 ladies allegedly killed by males final 12 months (Killed ladies rely, 31 December). However it worries me that speaking about ladies as victims merely reinforces the concept ladies are weak and weak, one thing which is completed on a regular basis in information reporting, movies, tv and so forth. It could be fascinating to know what number of males had been killed by males final 12 months: I believe an incredible deal extra. Absolutely what we have to speak about, as a society, is male violence. The issue will not be about weak ladies, it’s about violent males.
Anita Houghton
London
Re your editorial on rewrites of traditional novels (The Guardian view on rewriting classics: what the Dickens?, 30 December), I desire to name Demon Copperhead, which I’m midway by way of in the intervening time, a canopy model somewhat than a rewrite. It’s up there with Johnny Money’s model of 9 Inch Nails’ Harm, and simply as a lot a piece of genius as David Copperfield.
Mark Print
Spratton, Northamptonshire
I ring the medical doctors’ surgical procedure at 8am. The answering machine tells me that there are not any extra appointments for the day and that I ought to ring 111. I ring 111 they usually advise me to go to A&E. Simply following directions (Large rise in individuals going to A&E in England for minor illnesses, information exhibits, 31 December).
Toby Wooden
Peterborough
What a heartwarming and constructive sit up for launch the brand new 12 months (Nation diary, 1 January)! As an alternative of speeding round and lacking the world’s magnificence, stand nonetheless, watch and hear. A very good philosophy for all times.
Jeanette Hamilton
Buxton, Derbyshire
I look eagerly ahead to the return of your corrections column. It’s a worthy successor to the typographical errors for which your paper was as soon as famend. Why else would my late husband have rejoiced in calling me his “fiwe”?
Caroline McLean
Purton, Wiltshire
