Really interesting article about this new French book (A global history of sex, Family, 29 October). I am dismayed at the fact (and this happens all the time) that you do not mention the translator, without whom this book would not be available in Britain. Why is it so difficult to recognise that the translator is as important as the two authors? So thank you, Will McMorran, for your translation of The Story of Sex. Signed: A fellow translator who will not give up!
Catherine Roux
Hillend, Fife
• Of course doctors don’t infallibly know best (Letters, 3 November), but I’ve found that my usual question to doctors – “What would you do if it was you?” – has always met with a useful and, I think, honest answer.
Brian Smith
Berlin
• I remember my teenage daughters mocking a teacher at school for wearing jeans “at her age” (G2, 3 November). When I met her she was 24 or 25! Now they are all in their 50s and I am 83 and still wearing them. They haven’t mocked me, in my hearing, yet, but then I do help them out with their gardens from time to time when needed.
Lizzie Hill
Guildford, Surrey
• Now that Theresa May has condemned Fifa for opposing players wearing red poppies by players on Armistice Day (Report, 2 November) I hope she will encourage them if they wish to wear the white (peace) poppy.
Denis Cobell
Chair, Right to Refuse to Kill
• Not being au fait with Mexican restaurants, is “Wahaca” the noise one makes having dined at this chain, now suffering from a suspected norovirus outbreak? (Report, 3 November, theguardian.com)
Annie Wharton
Kelso, Scotland
• Odd to think that the Earth started with a big bang but may end with a Trump (As polling day looms, Clinton urges America to step back from the brink, 3 November).
Paul Dibden
Eastleigh, Hampshire
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