Why there’s no futurein predictions | Letters

Rewarding Guardian subscribers with a gift card from Amazon after exposing the company's tax avoidance (Letters, December 29) is far from hypocritical. Rather, it demonstrates the newspaper's welcome independence of its advertisers and commercial sponsors and a determination to uphold the finest traditions of honest journalism. Well done.
David Banks
Former editor, Daily Mirror (1992-94)

" Why would you want to screen out potential entrepreneurs, engineers and artists (Largest UK sperm bank bans dyslexic donors, 30 December)? Dyslexia confers strengths and the difficulties with acquiring literacy can be mitigated by the right teaching. Anyway, their aims are impossible: 10% of the population are dyslexic - turning away the very small number who've had it confirmed would still leave a large number in the available gene pool.
Dominic Addington Lib Dem, House of Lords and British Dyslexia Association president
Margaret Malpas BDA joint chair