The AA is wrong to attribute the “pothole epidemic” to the “beast from the east” (Report, 26 September). After eight years of government-imposed austerity, starving local highways authorities of fundsfor routine maintenance, our infrastructure is crumbling while Brexit consumes our attention.
Les Bright
Exeter
• Re Rebecca Solnit’s article (Abused women are called sluts. Powerful men are excused, Journal, 22 September), the fact that there does not exist in the English language a male equivalent for the term “slut” says it all.
Margaret Simpson
Bolton
• Further to the call to stop using nicknames for terrorist attackers (Report, 25 September), it would also be pertinent to stop naming them repeatedly once the initial story has broken. We all know the names of the Manchester attacker and the Westminster Bridge attacker for example, but the names of their victims are far less reported, and this plays perfectly into the “martyrdom” narrative of the attackers.
Deirdre Burrell
Mortimer, Berkshire
• I agreed with your editorial (22 September) on the increasing average length of newly published books. It would be lovely if you could resume your long-standing practice of including the number of pages when reviewing books in the Saturday Review section.
Neil McIlwraith
North Berwick, East Lothian
• Given the rise in the number of articles about polyamory (G2, 25 September), can we soon expect to see the Blind Date page in your Weekend magazine feature three or more people?
Ian Clark
Wareham, Dorset
• I enjoyed watching Blue Peter with my two sons, now in their 20s (Stuart Jeffries, Journal, 26 September). I mentioned this to them recently. “Well, you liked watching it, Mum,” one said kindly.
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith
Cambridge
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