There was an absence of women in the litany of modern-day political protesters through song (Letters, 26 November). To redress the balance, on Sunday night at the Witham, here in Barnard Castle, Hannah James and the Jig Doll Ensemble played a very beautiful and powerful song: Cry Baby – a poignant but punchy message of support for the student anti-gun movement in the US. It has, at least, mobilised me to write this letter.
Annie Clouston
Barnard Castle, County Durham
• Let’s not forget the occasional quartet Sisters Unlimited, especially songwriter and feminist Sandra Kerr, as well as solo singer Grace Petrie, one of whose songs has the line, somewhat ironically, “I wish the Guardian believed that I exist”.
Derek Schofield
Wistaston, Cheshire
• Apropos renaming your town (Pass notes: Vegan Wool, 26 November), in 1950 the host of the popular NBC radio quiz show Truth or Consequences announced that he would air the programme on its 10th anniversary from the first town willing to change its name to that of the programme. Hot Springs, New Mexico, got there first and it has been Truth or Consequences ever since.
Harry Watson
Edinburgh
• Why are the obituaries of “ordinary” people referred to as “Other lives”? We have yet to read one of these “other lives” that we found to be less interesting than the famous/infamous stories on other pages. No one is “other”. No one is “ordinary”.
Poppy Buchanan-Barker and Phil Barker
Newport-on-Tay, Fife
• Arlene Foster needs to be careful using the phrase “third way” (Report, 26 November). Does she not remember the sad fate of the last person to use it?
Stan Zetie
Streetly, West Midlands
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