The public filming of police brutality in America is clearly a welcome development, but one sad consequence is that in situations where someone is in danger, people will reach for their phones, rather than try to help.
Martin Gibbons
Prenton, Merseyside
This happens in the UK, too. I saw somebody being arrested for what seemed like nothing, took some pictures and promptly had my camera smashed and found myself charged with assaulting a police officer. The police put up such a pathetic case that the magistrates threw it out of court and awarded me damages.
Nic Oatridge On theguardian.com
Those who become parents at 40 will be 80 when their children are at a critical point in life. Our society has a poor record of supporting its older population. How do those who advocate older parenthood see their children being able to take on the additional physical and emotional support for them in old age?
Nic Howes
Hereford
Biologically, we are designed to have children when we’re younger, reproductively healthier and will be around for longer to support them. As for the career issue, if you have children in your 20s or early 30s, you have 40-plus years of working after you have them. If you want children, and have no medical complication that prevents you conceiving, get on with it. The career looks after itself.
forty On theguardian.com
So Apple and Facebook offer young female employees the “perk” of freezing their embryos. Could it be that the true motivation is to avoid the expense and inconvenience of women going on maternity leave?
Shira Rüb
Lower Ashton, Devon
Was it fair to fix Hannah up with someone who thinks bigamy is legal – “I was hoping for a second wife” (Blind Date, 15 August)?
Sean McSweeney
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Tim Dowling is in Greece, worrying that nothing bad will happen. I almost hope it does.
Margaret McDermott
Nottingham
Yotam Ottolenghi’s salt cod and green peppers recipe on 15 August requires me to weigh 5g of dill. This is the weight of a 20p coin, for which the needle on my scale would move by half a millimetre. Do I need to buy some hi-tech scales?
Mike Parr
Sheffield
So now “Why you shouldn’t” in Snooping Around is because there’s a septic tank (15 August)? Does Anna Tims get out much?
Pam McKee
Formby, Merseyside
You didn’t ask 91-year-old Nicholas Parsons how often he has sex. Is that sexist, ageist – or both?
Toby Wood
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
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