Richard Burgon MP says Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity rating was not the major factor in the election defeat (Corbyn rebuked after video address avoids mention of election result, 1 January). This raises many questions. The obvious one is to ask on which planet Mr Burgon has been living. A lack of contact with voters might explain why his share of the vote in Leeds East dropped by 11.5%.
Peter Brooker
West Wickham, Kent
• I can sympathise with Rob Lily (Letters, 1 January), realising he must be now officially old when informed that the 20-year guarantee on a new frying pan meant it was likely to outlast him. During the installation of a new bathroom, the fitter embedded LED lights deep in the ceiling. Seeking to clarify how one replaced them on expiry, I was matter-of-factly told I had nothing to worry about as they would last longer than I would.
Chris Sexton
Crowthorne, Berkshire
• “There’s something for everyone in this list of music’s up-and-coming talents,” you say (The best new Music for 2020, G2, 27 December). But there wasn’t any British folk music – hardly a minority pursuit – at all.
Ian Anderson
Bristol
• Larry Blackmon of Cameo (Letters, 1 January) was surely influenced by Moroni’s 16th-century portrait of Antonio Navagero – the thrustingest codpiece known to art history.
Judith Flanders
Westmount, Quebec, Canada
• Let us not forget th’Lone Groover of NME cartoon fame. Surely he was just as memorable a parody of the sporter of codpieces.
Phyllis Hyde
Coventry
• I spotted two flowering daffodils in Stoke Gabriel, Devon, on 31 December. Is this a record?
Sara Mills
Totnes, Devon
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