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| Aditya Chakrabortty worries about academics who “turn inequality into an abstraction” (Opinion, 1 September). To find academics who devote their lives to applying theoretical rigour to solving practical problems of inequality we recommend the acknowledgements page of Inequality: What Can Be Done. This is the last book published by our late father, Tony Atkinson (who would have been 73 this month). The book has been translated into 15 languages and profits have been donated to charities fighting poverty and inequality in the UK and abroad. Richard, Sarah and Charles AtkinsonOxford | Aditya Chakrabortty worries about academics who “turn inequality into an abstraction” (Opinion, 1 September). To find academics who devote their lives to applying theoretical rigour to solving practical problems of inequality we recommend the acknowledgements page of Inequality: What Can Be Done. This is the last book published by our late father, Tony Atkinson (who would have been 73 this month). The book has been translated into 15 languages and profits have been donated to charities fighting poverty and inequality in the UK and abroad. Richard, Sarah and Charles AtkinsonOxford |
| • Great to see a man and his prosthetic leg featuring so prominently in BBC1’s dramatisation of Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling’s Strike – The Cuckoo’s Calling (Letters, 30 August) – and to see it used as a defensive weapon too. Could we have a drama with a woman who wears a prosthetic leg soon, please? Can she be characterful rather than beautiful, and not a victim?Miranda Cox (prosthetic leg wearer)Bideford, Devon | • Great to see a man and his prosthetic leg featuring so prominently in BBC1’s dramatisation of Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling’s Strike – The Cuckoo’s Calling (Letters, 30 August) – and to see it used as a defensive weapon too. Could we have a drama with a woman who wears a prosthetic leg soon, please? Can she be characterful rather than beautiful, and not a victim?Miranda Cox (prosthetic leg wearer)Bideford, Devon |
| • I had a heart transplant almost 20 years ago at the brilliant QEH in Birmingham (Reticence on giving organs costs 457 lives a year, 4 September). Transplantation works. I would urge everyone to press for an opt-out donor system. You are more likely to need an organ than to give one. Meanwhile, make sure you are on the donor register and have discussed your wishes with loved ones. Jan AndrewsBristol | • I had a heart transplant almost 20 years ago at the brilliant QEH in Birmingham (Reticence on giving organs costs 457 lives a year, 4 September). Transplantation works. I would urge everyone to press for an opt-out donor system. You are more likely to need an organ than to give one. Meanwhile, make sure you are on the donor register and have discussed your wishes with loved ones. Jan AndrewsBristol |
| • My father fought in the first world war (Letters, 4 September). They were being drilled for the arrival of a dignitary. “Officers will shout Hoo-rah”, they were instructed. “Men will shout Hoo-ray”.John BranfieldTruro, Cornwall | • My father fought in the first world war (Letters, 4 September). They were being drilled for the arrival of a dignitary. “Officers will shout Hoo-rah”, they were instructed. “Men will shout Hoo-ray”.John BranfieldTruro, Cornwall |
| • Surely such a tech-savvy author would have kept a backup (Pratchett’s unfinished novels, 31 August)?Dave HeadeyFaringdon, Oxfordshire | • Surely such a tech-savvy author would have kept a backup (Pratchett’s unfinished novels, 31 August)?Dave HeadeyFaringdon, Oxfordshire |
| • Great to see three bridges over the Forth (Report, 30 August). What will they call the next one?Bob HughesWilloughby, Warwickshire | • Great to see three bridges over the Forth (Report, 30 August). What will they call the next one?Bob HughesWilloughby, Warwickshire |
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