Fr Alec Mitchell’s comments on praying for peace (Letters, 9 March) reflect well on the issue of “faith”. If God prevents wars and disasters happening, we never get to know (because they don’t happen), and so God gets no credit. If God allows such events to happen, then God gets blamed, generally by people who don’t even believe in God. Divine catch-22?
Peter Nuttall
Caistor, Lincolnshire
• As a corollary to Fr Mitchell’s letter, how much better might it have been if the art school in Vienna had not rejected Hitler’s application, and if the USSR’s collapse hadn’t left Putin simmering in resentment as he moonlighted as a taxi driver to make ends meet?
Val Mainwood
Wivenhoe, Essex
• Re the article on sex and the older generation (9 March), anyone still unconvinced should read Alex Comfort’s The Joy of Sex, updated by Susan Quilliam as The New Joy of Sex in 2008. “The only thing age has to do with sex performance is that the longer you love, the more you learn … you know what goes where and what to do with it.”
Christine Hawkes
Cambridge
• In the late 70s my Ramblers group struggled through a glutinous mire on Black Hill (Country diary, 11 March). My mate said it was like trying to tapdance on a coalminer’s giant snotrag.
Alan Marsden
Beetham, Cumbria
• Ukraine’s president is a comedian who has become a statesman. What a pity that our prime minister has no chance of emulating him.
Dave Pollard
Leicester
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