I read with interest Dave Simpson’s review (7 May) of Blossoms’ concert at The Plaza in Stockport, but was dismayed that my beloved Stockport County FC were described as “struggling”, coupled with hints that us Stopfordians have little “to sing about”. Fifth place in the National League North, home to the largest brick-built structure, along with the only museum dedicated to the hat industry, in the UK, the birthplace of Fred Perry, not forgetting the legendary Strawberry Studios. I could go on…
Tony Ranells
Hampton Hill, Middlesex
• Your editorial (8 May) wonders “whether a truly radical operatic storyline would foreground women’s agency. And let the characters walk away, alive, at the end”. Beethoven did just that in his only opera, Fidelio – though most productions leave out the bit at the end where Leonore walks away slowly from a massive explosion at the prison.
Derrick Cameron
Stoke-on-Trent
• In a stunning victory for trade union activism and justice, the sacked workers at the Royal Opera House (Letters, 24 March) have all been reinstated. The Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union is an inspiration to repressed workers everywhere.
Bill Hawkes
Canterbury, Kent
• The “thing” about predictive texting, Brendan Kelly, is that it learns from the user’s own word usage (Letters, 9 May). Your mother may know this too…
Danielle Lowy
Manchester
• My email address, which starts Geri, is automatically corrected to Geriatric. A reflection on my great age, I suppose.
Geraldine Blake
Worthing, West Sussex
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