From phones to football: Readers have their say - plus an RAF Cosford archive moment

Get off phone, you dummies!

When I was one year old, my mother gave me a dummy to suck on to keep me subdued.

Nowadays, adult humans have a dummy to suck on, ie the mobile phone. In fact, if a teat was installed on the screen, many humans would be pacified into a deep sleep.

Do they not realise that they are being controlled autonomously? If they are eating or chatting, the phone automatically stops this, because humans are easily controlled by their robotic masters when it issues a beep command.

Wherever you look, there is a zombie walking around with the plastic toy, staring at the screen, unable to look where they are walking. Some even do it when sitting on a toilet. Young ladies use the screen as a mirror after using it to put makeup on.

What a sad society we live in now. No wonder youngsters are suffering mentally, constantly being controlled and unable to let go of their dummy.

In fact, 75 years into the future, humans will not exist. AI will be controlling you in every way possible because humans are so gullible. In fact, the only animals with any sense were the dinosaurs, which humans can thank the asteroid for making extinct, and AI will do the same to humans.

I witnessed another human idiotic experiment at the Merry Hill Centre: a company trialling a robotic lawn mower, all rejoicing in its capabilities, except for one thing – the fact that many people will be out of work when it comes to fruition. No need for a paid employee to operate a lawnmower. Another job redundant. Will humans be shouting hurrah when it happens, just like self-service tills, operated by people without being paid to do it?

C Lloyd, Dudley

​Why’s councillor in Apocalypse?

I am writing to express my utter disbelief at the conduct of Wolverhampton councillor Celia Hibbert on Channel 4's "The Apocalypse". At a time when local councils face severe challenges, it is highly inappropriate for an elected official to be participating in primetime reality television antics, shouting matches, and admitting to camp contraband plots.

While she may view this as a personal adventure, her actions bring the reputation of our civic leadership into disrepute. If politicians want to be media celebrities, they should step down from public office and allow someone dedicated to the community to take their seat.

Leon John Greenslade, Devon

Mission to find someone to sue

Some years ago I took one of those simple DNA tests. It showed Welsh, Irish, Scots, English, Scandinavian, and Greek and Southern Italian ancestry.

Thinking on this and all the claims for past wrongs set me wondering whether I should put in claims: for suppression under the Roman Empire, to the Pope (successor to the Roman Emperors); the descendants of the Normans and their conquest, for three hundred years of serfdom (slavery); the Highland Clearances; the Irish Potato Famine; and to the German government for their starting World War Two, in which my father contracted TB after being conscripted to fight in said war.

He died in 1952, aged 29 years, of TB, when I was three years old.

Perhaps we should be like the Americans and sue our own grandmothers.

I'll think of something.

T R Clift, Dudley

Reform boat plan will rebound

Chris Smith says that the way to deal with migrants is to put them in pedalos and a rubber boat a mile off the French coast and point them towards France.

A nice idea, but they will simply turn round and head straight back to Dover. The Royal Navy cannot touch them in French waters.

On the issue of the £72 million donation to Reform UK by the two crypto billionaires, Robert Jenrick Reforms economic spokesman says they do not expect any favours in return - really?

Nigel Farage is on record as saying that if Reform were voted into power, it would introduce crypto trading into the government’s finance structure. I wonder who would get the contracts?

Name and address supplied

Derby showdown was just a game

I have Baggies friends who faced defeat with good humour and perspective. As a Wolves fan, the derby match at Molineux was really, really important, but not life or death. And certainly not worth vandalising property for.

Cath Jones, Penn

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