If Gen Z are asked to go to war, it might not be in the way they expect

Jason Okundaye addresses the issue of whether Britain’s youth would be willing to lay down their lives in defence of our country (Gen Z doesn‘t relish going to war – so what! You should worry more about the reckless generations that do, 10 November). A more likely scenario is that they will be asked to fight and die for the sake of a Nato ally on Russia’s border, such as Poland or Lithuania.
Matthew J Smith
New Malden, London

• Starbucks’ plans (Starbucks plans to hire 7,500 staff in major UK expansion plan, 9 November) coupled with the inexorable advance of AI would suggest a career as a barista might now be more secure than that of a barrister.
Philip Clarke
East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire

• Mr Netanyahu wants Israel to become a “super Sparta” (Editorial, 12 November). Has he checked what happened to Sparta after its defeat at Leuctra in 371BC – a generation after the Peloponnesian war?
Peter Brooker
West Wickham, London

• For itching powder (Letters, 12 November) we used to collect the seeds inside rosehips.
Stephen Walkley, aged 77¾
Lutterworth, Leicestershire

• I’m only 82, but I recall as an 11-year-old reading about “itchy” powder in the Beano comic. My schoolmates and I tried to make it with fibres from rosehips. We weren’t very successful.
Christopher Osborne
West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire

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