Worried about climate change? I blame men | Brief letters

Normally I would write to complain about such a gendered phrase as “man-made” (Opinion, 17 June). In the case of “man-made climate change” however, I’m inclined to let it pass. On balance it seems likely that rather more men than women do bear responsibility for the changes which are leading our planet to fry. “Anthropogenic” is a much more elegant word though.
Sylvia Rose
Totnes, Devon

• Virginia Cumming (Letters, 21 June) calls out the Daily Mail for inflammatory language. On page 25, Aditya Chakrabortty declares that “Britain still murders its poor” (Opinion, 21 June) Mote and Beam?
J Moorhead
Gorstage, Cheshire

• Salley Vickers (Letters, 20 June) may be interested to hear that I used to tell my literature students; “You cheat. Others plagiarise. I practice intertextuality.”
Keith Reader
London

• Oh how mums like me loved the few minutes’ peace … and the wonderful “Merry once, merry twice, merry chicken soup with rice”. We loved you, Brian Cant (Obituary, 21 June). A star. Thank you.
Dorothy Armstrong
Exeter

• The cryptic crossword is occasionally a pleasurable challenge but mostly an impossible Mensa entrance test. Perhaps now is a good time to remind all setters of the adage currently sweeping the country, “for the many, not the few, please!”
Richard Walker
West Malvern, Worcestershire

• I noticed that, of all the heatwave pictures in today’s paper (21 June), the three from Blackpool portrayed fat people but all the pictures from Brighton, London and the south denoted only svelte people! Don’t they let plump people out during the day down there?
Ian Garner
Keighley, West Yorkshire

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