I notice you didn’t include in your list of jobs that are at risk from robots (Report, 5 November) that of newsreader. I would have thought that given my smartphone can translate my voice commands into text, it would be simple to do it the other way round with a bit of facial expression added. We wouldn’t notice much difference between them and the current lot, and it would save all that boasting and seething reported in the same issue (Bong! Huw Edwards gloats as BBC beats ITV at 10).
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
• On Remembrance Day, I will wear a red poppy to honour my father and three uncles who all saw combat in the second world war. I will also wear a white poppy to honour my granddad, who robustly refused to be driven, sheep-like, to the trenches in 1914, holding that if you gave a gun to a working man and told him to kill another working man, the best thing for either of them to do would be to unite and collectively turn the guns on the bloody fat cat bosses that caused the whole thing to start with.
Judith Mackinlay
Manchester
• These aversions to two-word collocations are all very well (Letters, passim) but are they clinically proven?
Gordon Thorburn
Laxfield, Suffolk
• Could we burn all the “property ladders” and get back to buying somewhere to live?
Tom Swallow
Kenilworth, Warwickshire
• “Thousands of people lined the streets of Lewes to watch the parade of seven bonfire societies ... [the town] claims it is the biggest 5 November event in the world” (Caption, page 17, 6 November). How many other countries celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
TP Leary
Dunchurch, Warwickshire
