Caroline is not so sweet the umpteenth time

SIR – Vicki Williams (Letters, May 28) asks why Sweet Caroline was chosen as a theme song for the Platinum Jubilee.

I suggest it is the song’s ease of rendition when inebriated. The slow drone-like beginning has a unique ability to raise even the most slurring wastrel to heights of perceived harmonic grandeur for the unrelenting climax, and back again and again to its low point.

I once learnt this to my cost through the night and into the early hours from a bar across the road from where I was staying on holiday.

Bob Stebbings

Chorleywood, Hertfordshire

SIR – I hope all heads of schools and their staff are taking this opportunity to teach all their pupils the national anthem? Hands up!

Helen Cann

Poundbury, Dorset

SIR – Louise Meredith (Letters, May 27) chides greedy retail corporations for enriching themselves over the jubilee bank holiday weekend at the expense of family time on those special days for their front-line staff. Quite right.

I think the same thing every time a cosseted civil service union spokesman defends working from home for people who still expect bin men, shop workers, public transport drivers, delivery drivers and millions of others to be there, in person, on time, and ready to serve their every need, whenever they want – including, without doubt, the jubilee weekend.

We are creating a society of self-entitled middle-class consumers working hours to suit themselves, all the while dependent on the sweat of working-class operatives.

Victor Launert

Matlock Bath, Derbyshire

SIR – I invite all readers to give 70 minutes of their time to litter-pick in their area in the run-up to the jubilee weekend – one minute for each year of the Queen’s reign.

Linden Porter

Lane End, Buckinghamshire