Equal measures

animals’ disappearing habitats. Hoping to inspire others in his profession, he notes, “We need to start giving back more to our subjects.”

The photographer involved in the lawsuit agreed to donate 25 per cent of the proceeds from future sales of the ‘monkey selfie’ photos to organisations dedicated to protecting and improving the welfare and habitat of Naruto and other crested black macaques in Indonesia.

Wild macaques need all the help they can get. Their numbers have decreased by 90 per cent in the last 25 years, as they’re being killed for meat and experiencing human encroachment on their habitat.

We can all make a difference by giving what we can to organisations working to make the world a better place for all animals.

JENNIFER WHITE PETA UK, All Saints Street,

London N1 The logic of Thomas Jefferson’s dictum that “There is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals”, quoted by Colin Mcallister (Letters, 27 September), is quite appealing but it raises the question of who decides who is equal to whom.

I wonder, for instance, how Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later the third President of the United States, ranked the slaves on his plantation in relation to himself.

Then again, the ruling pigs in Orwell’s Animal Farm accepted that all animals were equal - they just decreed that some were more equal than others.

However, as WS Gilbert put it in The Gondoliers, “When everyone is somebody then no-one’s anybody”. Tricky territory, equality.

S BECK Craigleith Drive, Edinburgh Can’t say I often agree with Pete Wishart but on this he is right. The striking thing about the SNP, since 2014, is that they seem to have done no fresh thinking on the issues which defeated them at the referendum. The discredited White Paper still stands as their last word on many policies. Surely the SNP aren’t going to implode over this? I hope as a progressive party they pull together at this difficult time and show that they are indeed, ‘Stronger For Scotland’. - Jason Clark