Why does the Church of England continue to accept for training male ordinands who are opposed to the ordination of women as priests, now that it is clearly a church that ordains women to the priesthood, and indeed the episcopacy (Sheffield’s new bishop is a slap in the face for the women of steel, 3 March)? It’s not only illogical but also cumulatively ingravescent.
Fr Alec Mitchell
Manchester
• It is cowardly of the government to partially exempt faith schools from compulsory sex education (Sex education to be compulsory in all high schools, 2 March) given that such a high proportion of alleged sex abuse cases occurred in religious settings.
Sheila Cross
Northallerton, North Yorkshire
• It’s no surprise that Ian Fleming’s James Bond “would not get into MI6” (The new MI6: less white and less like Bond, 3 March), but the reason Daniel Craig was such a success in the Bond movies was that from his first appearance he didn’t look like an elegant Etonian but like a tough squaddie shoved into a suit.
Mike Jakeways
Oundle, Northamptonshire
• It is properly Welsh rabbit, not rarebit (Letters, 3 March). As my treasured and battered 1972 Chambers has it: “Sometimes written ‘Welsh rarebit’ by wiseacres.”
Nick Starling
London
• As children, we looked forward to the possibility of leftover pastry because our mother would always parcel it up with sugar and currants or sultanas to make “rough stuff” (Letters, passim). Nothing was wasted.
Melanie White
Reading
• I still remember the story my partner told of a sex ed lesson some years ago. He asked the class if they remembered what a vulva was. One child put his hand up. “Is it a type of biscuit, sir?”
Jennie Quilligan
London
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