I fully support the motives behind your highlighting of the 80 women allegedly killed by men last year (Killed women count, 31 December). But it worries me that talking about women as victims simply reinforces the idea that women are weak and vulnerable, something which is done all the time in news reporting, films, television and so on. It would be interesting to know how many men were killed by men last year: I suspect a great deal more. Surely what we need to talk about, as a society, is male violence. The problem is not about vulnerable women, it is about violent men.
Anita Houghton
London
• Re your editorial on rewrites of classic novels (The Guardian view on rewriting classics: what the Dickens?, 30 December), I prefer to call Demon Copperhead, which I’m halfway through at the moment, a cover version rather than a rewrite. It’s up there with Johnny Cash’s version of Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt, and just as much a work of genius as David Copperfield.
Mark Print
Spratton, Northamptonshire
• I ring the doctors’ surgery at 8am. The answering machine tells me that there are no more appointments for the day and that I should ring 111. I ring 111 and they advise me to go to A&E. Just following instructions (Big rise in people going to A&E in England for minor ailments, data shows, 31 December).
Toby Wood
Peterborough
• What a heartwarming and positive look forward to launch the new year (Country diary, 1 January)! Instead of rushing around and missing the world’s beauty, stand still, watch and listen. A good philosophy for life.
Jeanette Hamilton
Buxton, Derbyshire
• I look eagerly forward to the return of your corrections column. It is a worthy successor to the typographical errors for which your paper was once renowned. Why else would my late husband have rejoiced in calling me his “fiwe”?
Caroline McLean
Purton, Wiltshire
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