Your coverage of the interview with Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Doulton was deeply disturbing (RAF stretched to the limit, air chief warns, 4 April). Try reading it while replacing "the RAF" with "children's services" and you'll see what I mean. The notion of the RAF "not wanting to scale back and lose its global reach" is equally worrying – public services, of which the RAF is one, all have to follow the dictates of parliament. I look forward to you interviewing Matt Dunkley, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services, and not relegating it to page 5 of Society Guardian but splashing it on page 1 of the main paper.
John Freeman
Joint president of ADCS 2007-08
• We fail to understand what Kenneth Branagh has done to earn such undiluted bile (The star who forgot how to shine, Film & Music, 1 April). Perhaps Branagh is happy to be known as an excellent actor, a good director, and an unassuming champion of the arts. I don't remember him ever saying he was the new Olivier.
Nicola and Bob Grove
London
• AC Grayling asks how someone can be a militant atheist (G2, 4 April). It is quite simple. If atheism is promoted in a militant manner, using, for example, the power of the state to harass, arrest or even kill those who disagree, then over 20% of the world's population during the last century could have been said to live under the rule of militant atheism.
Dr Andrew Pinsent
Harris Manchester College, Oxford
• So the idea that each sheep might have a unique distinctive personality is quite modern, academically speaking (Improbable research, Education Guardian, 5 April). Just shows these clever university people never talked to a shepherd.
JES Bradshaw
Southam, Warwickshire
• Bob Geldof, DH Lawrence, Henry Miller, Lenny Bruce, Kenneth Tynan, Billy Connolly ... Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Your boy Wayne Rooney took a hell of a beating (Report, 5 April)!
Dai Woosnam
Grimsby, Lincolnshire
• Do we need a Brontë-saurus (Letters, 5 April)?
David Bradnack
Oxford