Your review of Rod Stewart at Glastonbury said that the great man was heralded on stage by the “blare of bagpipes” (29 June). Call me pedantic but surely you could have come up with a less pejorative term to describe the stirring sound of the pipes?
Mike Pender
Cardiff
• If the UK government put as much effort into stopping Israel’s violence against the Palestinian people as they do into condemning stage acts at Glastonbury, there might be some grounds for hope (Streeting condemns anti-IDF chants at Glastonbury but says ‘Israel should get its own house in order’, 29 June).
Douglas Currie
Edinburgh
• As a 10-year-old, I bought a bottle of green ink in 1955 at a summer fete (Letters, 29 June). I used it at school in my exercise book and was reprimanded by my teacher, who sent me to my previous year’s teacher for his expected caustic comment. He was more easy-going, saying: “You must be as green as the ink you are using” and sent me back to my class teacher.
David Noel Smith
Tring, Hertfordshire
• Re your letter about losing the definite article (29 June), I have three violins. Sometimes I play this one, sometimes that one, or the other one. So it could be said I’m playing a violin rather than “the” violin. Or, more simply, I play violin.
Ian Watson
Glasgow
• Am I the only woman to be offended by the portrayal of my (ageing) breasts on the front cover of Saturday magazine as cherry buns (‘A marker of luxury and arrogance’: why gravity-defying boobs are back – and what they say about the state of the world, 28 June), or am I turning into my mother?
Jean Allen
Ipswich, Suffolk
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