I was interested to read that the chair of the Turner prize judges has declared winner Charlotte Prodger’s work the “most profound use of a device as prosaic as the iPhone camera that we’ve seen in art to date” (Video clips shot using an iPhone win Turner prize, 5 December). I am finding my iPhone very useful for holding down the wrapping paper on the Christmas presents, when I need both hands to wrangle the sticky tape into submission. Does this use count as profound or prosaic?
Fiona Collins
Carrog, Denbighshire
• I thought of an answer to Sian Cain’s question “Bad sex: why do only famous white men get to write about it?’’ (Opinion, 5 December). In my experience, and that of many of my women friends, few men have any notion of what good sex for a woman might mean. This might affect male literary endeavour. Moreover, vis-a-vis your Bias in Britain series, presumably fewer non-white male authors are getting published. Voila!
Pippa Richardson
Swansea
• You printed several responses (Letters, 5 December) to Max Liu’s article (3 December) on Cornish literature. None from the right side of the Tamar. None about writers both alive and the right side of 50. Does this show: 1) Max had a point. We are waiting for the great Cornish novel or 2) As ever, Cornwall is told what to think by they up-country folk?
Philip Kerridge
Bodmin, Cornwall
• Thanks to Peter Adamson (Letters, 5 December) who suggests I might stand for my local council in the hope of changing its housing policies. Sadly, here in sunny Buckinghamshire, lefty Guardian readers are about as rare as bungalows, so I fear I would have no hope of election.
Jill Wallis
Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire
• Dr Wendy Atkin (Obituary, 4 December; Letters, 7 December) for the £50 note?
Ian Thompson
Welshpool, Powys
• I couldn’t help thinking of our old friend Baldrick when I read your headline “Corbyn: reject PM’s Brexit deal and back my plan” (7 December).
Sue Hoar
Milland, West Sussex
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