Re your article (Last of the seaside cinema organs: Weston-super-Mare bids adieu to its Compton, 22 May), up here in Yorkshire, the Paramount cinema in Penistone has a Compton organ very much alive and active. Elland’s Rex cinema also has a Conn 651 organ in regular use. The Rex dates from 1912, the Paramount from 1914 – both are independent cinemas.
David Carter
Wakefield
• Never mind AI having to keep up with Taylor Swift’s lyrics (Letters, 22 May). When it can deliver melody and lyrics such as those in The Divine Comedy’s National Express – “But it’s hard to get by when your arse is the size of a small country” – then I will tip my hat in joyful appreciation.
Huw Beynon
Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire
• It’s curious how many male MPs discover that they have families only at the point of failure or disgrace (Dominic Raab to stand down as MP at next election, 22 May).
Paul McGilchrist
Cromer, Norfolk
• Re your headline, “UK arms sales reach record £8.5bn as global tensions escalate”, I’d have put it the other way round.
Shareen Campbell
Miramont-de-Guyenne, France
• Regarding imprisonment for public protection sentences (Letters, 22 May), IPPs are Britain’s Guantánamo Bay.
Bill Robinson
Little Barningham, Norfolk
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