Write letters, not pink Mother’s Day cards

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/mar/02/no-pink-mothers-day-cards-innocent-victims

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Three cheers for Gaby Hinsliff’s perceptive insight (We are losing the physical touch from our lives – and it’s changing us, 27 February). My experience as an English teacher suggests that handwriting, like most forms of self-expression, is an important key to learning, and reading their own handwriting out loud every day ensures that students have understood what they have written. Incidentally, my friends love to receive my handwritten letters and they tell me I must be one of the only people still writing.Jean TaylorLondon

• The United Nations has dedicated 4 June each year as the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression (Letters, 27 February). Since some of us are not much enamoured of the idea of slaughtering “guilty” children in the name of “defence”, the Housmans Peace Diary has – so far without complaint – redesignated the date as the International Day for Children as Victims of War.Albert BealeEditor, Housmans Peace Diary

• The security services, and everyone else, should read The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid for insight into the process of moving from citizenship towards jihadism (‘The best employee we ever had’ – Emwazi the model IT salesman, 2 March).Margaret ScorerLondon

• The most severe outbreak of pinkification (Letters, 28 February) has broken out in the form of Mother’s Day cards. It’s pink or nothing. Has the greeting card industry not been paying attention?Geraldine MonkSheffield

• Sir Malcolm Rifkind said in explanation of his conduct: “We all make errors of judgment. We are all human beings in that sense” (Report, 25 February). In what sense is he not a human being then?Stephen BarberCarterton, Oxfordshire