Peter Bradshaw’s review of the Cats film (A purr-fectly dreadful adaptation, 19 December) is brilliant in its parody of TS Eliot’s original. There is, however, a precedent. In the 1970s, Stephen McClarence, then working for the Doncaster Evening Post, reviewed a local performance of Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha in the metre of Longfellow’s poem. Thanks for the laugh and the memory.
Rev Dr Peter Phillips
Swansea
• Re lending Boris Johnson a pen (Letters, 18 December), several years ago, visiting a close relative in a care home, I had to borrow a pen from one of the residents. When I’d finished, I was reminded to return it by a polite cough and the remark: “Thank you, I’ve lost pianos that way.”
Anthony Hale
Barbon, Cumbria
• Isn’t an Old Etonian someone who thinks it is your privilege to lend him money – or a Mont Blanc ballpoint – and never get it back?
Nicholas Jacobs
London
• Boris Johnson’s election campaign: veni, mentiti, vici.
Rod Logan
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
• Scottish independence needs a slogan. How about Scotch Eggs It?
John Loader
West Witton, North Yorkshire
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