A pity you didn’t ask Hilary Benn how he thinks dropping more bombs on Syria will bring peace to that benighted country. A pity Benn the younger can’t be so eloquent attacking the Tories.
David Reed
London NW3
I don’t agree with Benn’s stance on Syria or nuclear arms, but he has the right to his views. Critics who invoke his father should ask themselves if they are slaves to their father’s views. That said, I learned from the article that Benn is a Spurs fan, and know Corbyn is Arsenal. Now I’m conflicted.
Mike Nagle
Wilmslow, Cheshire
Emma Jane Unsworth advocates swearing in front of children. Of course children will hear bad language, but at home and at school it should be unacceptable, from both them and adults. Maybe if Emma were to have children, she’d look at things rather differently.
Jennifer White
Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire
Alanis Morissette tells a 14-year-old with a crush on a teacher that she “can move on in a number of ways”, including one-to-one tutorials with this teacher. This sounds very irresponsible advice to me.
Krystyna Thompson
Derby
I would love more comprehensively to express my dismay at Bridget Christie’s attitude to the modern family man. But the cooking, cleaning and raising my children to be open-minded is encroaching on my opportunities for extra-marital affairs as it is.
Laurence McJannet
Frome, Somerset
Oh, the irony of men taking a brilliant comedian’s reasonable comment on mobile phones so seriously that they feel obliged to put her straight. I now understand the concept of mansplaining.
Nick Lightowlers
Harlesden, London
I was feeling peevish when I read the Clive James headline: “I admire the way Jeremy Corbyn’s principles are uninhibited by reason”. Please don’t die yet, Clive. You’re a tonic for the rest of us.
Gill Edwards
Blewbury, Oxon
I appreciate that Zoe Williams’s On The Road column is an effort to break free from the numbers-loaded reviews beloved of petrolheads, but I feel that she has gone too far. Surely even the most anti-tech reader needs to know how big the engine is?
Colin Maitland
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
Do any bricklayers, joiners, labourers, etc, go on blind dates and not live in London? I have no idea what most of the jobs quoted actually involve.
Frank Kane
Irvine
Never mind That’s My Pet!. When are Red Cat and Come Again returning?
Jane Burke
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire
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