If the assertion that DJs just play other people’s music is correct, it sets an interesting way of viewing the wider world (The hill I will die on: ‘Being a DJ’ isn’t a proper job, 16 January). By that measure, chefs just use other people’s ingredients and pharmacists just use other people’s medicines, though I’m not sure what politicians use. Probably not other people’s concerns.
Antony Bellekom
Collingham, Nottinghamshire
• Re your report (Gotta watch ‘em all? Pokémon-style app for birdwatching launches, 17 February), I was an avid collector of the I-Spy books in the 1950s and 1960s, including I-Spy Birds, and was awarded a real feather by Big Chief I-Spy for sending in a watercolour painting of a barn owl that I had seen nesting in an outbuilding at my home.
Judy Evans
Brighton
• Nesrine Malik laments Keir Starmer’s intangibility (Keir Starmer has a unique talent – to alienate absolutely everyone, 16 February). I think we have become too intrusive – no one dreamed of asking Clement Attlee or Harold Wilson whether they had phobias or had a favourite novel.
Shirley Neish
Great Bookham, Surrey
• Royal Mail is prioritising parcels as they take up more space in sorting offices (Report, 16 February). So, to ensure my letter is delivered, should I put it in a big box?
Chris Walters
Buxton, Derbyshire
• Re the “ban saying thank you” saga (Letters, 15 February), here’s a simple summary: if sorry is the hardest word to say, thank you are the easiest words to forget to say.
John Saxbee
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
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