Time for UK to take Eurovision seriously

Your article identifies some of the problems with the UK’s attitude towards Eurovision, but then compounds them by calling it “the silliest singing competition in the world” (Nul points again: how exactly can the UK win Eurovision?, 23 May). Disregarding the imperative to take it more seriously if we want to do well, as a singing teacher I can assure you that I have been to many sillier singing competitions than this.Simon McEnerySalisbury

• I was intrigued to read the article about “misophonia” (24 May), a hatred of sound which results in people becoming angry and violent when they hear others chewing food, drinking and even breathing. As a musician, I think the answer is to drown the chewing sounds with recordings of works such as Rossini’s Ouf! Les Petits Pois and Lalande’s Musique Pour les Soupers du Roi.Meirion BowenLondon

• Kevin Foster says receiving more than 5.4m applications to the EU settlement scheme “demonstrates how the government has made the system as straightforward and user-friendly as possible” (Letters, 23 May). No. All it tells us is how many applications have been received.Wendy MoirKirkcaldy, Fife

• Since your article (‘Quite a challenge’: UK restaurants and pubs face staffing crisis after Brexit, 1 May) things appear to have got worse. We drove past a pub in Newport with a board outside stating “Staff wanted, dead or alive” (Letters, 24May).Geoff ElmsLlanfyrnach, Pembrokeshire

• Out with Dido, in with Fido (Faster than a PCR test: dogs detect Covid in under a second, 24 May)?David GriffithsHuddersfield

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