Is the Guardian now targeting gen Z readers? We’ve had features on “micro-efficiencies” (laying out your clothes or breakfast the night before), paying with cash and now not using weather apps (I stopped checking the weather forecast – and got a series of wonderful surprises, 26 May). We, um, older readers have always done these things. What next? The joy of posting birthday cards? Arranging to meet a friend and just turning up at the agreed time and place?
Janet Fraser
Twickenham, London
• Over 50 years ago, between sets, I found myself next to Sonny Rollins (Obituary, 26 May) in the gents at Ronnie Scott’s. I mentioned it was the birthday of my friend, the late David Dodd. In the second set, the unmistakable strains of Happy Birthday crept up into one of his improvisations. Never forgotten.
Paul Collins
Horton-cum-Studley, Oxfordshire
• Reading the list of things bought by Peter Murrell with the money he stole from the SNP (25 May), it occurred to me that I wouldn’t want any of them, apart from the book by Hannah Arendt. How ironic that it was Arendt who coined the phrase “the banality of evil”.
Neil Hanson
Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire
• Jason Okundaye reviews a Shakespearean saga in Worcestershire’s politics (25 May). The Bard got there first with Henry IV’s words: “Worcester, get thee gone; for I do see / Danger and disobedience in thine eye.”
Dr John Doherty
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
• The avatar of Ozzy Osbourne will be “so tasteful”, assures his son (Report, 26 May). That threat should make Ozzy spin in his grave.
James Fanning
Greifswald, Germany
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