Here’s a bombshell for Philip Hammond | Brief letters

Someone should ask Philip Hammond, a former secretary of state for defence, exactly which bombs Jeremy Corbyn wouldn’t supply to the army (Report, 4 May).It’s the RAF that uses bombs (in the absence of naval aircraft capable of this, due to the Tories scrapping them).• Viv Groskop comments wittily on the absence of a word for “privacy”, in the sense of “personal space”, in Russian (G2, 3 May), though it’s worth mentioning it’s well equipp