Naming mystery is a bit of a Cliff-hanger

I am a lifelong reader of the Guardian. I have huge respect for David Brindle as a journalist who has consistently raised the profile and challenged the adult social care sector. Both the paper and David need to be better served by careless headline writers. I did not say that nursing needs to rediscover its humanity (Interview, 12 December). Read the article and get it right.
Andrea Sutcliffe
Chief inspector of adult social care at the Care Quality Commission (CQC)

• These recent political events have certainly done wonders for my sense of proportion. I can remember a time when the things I was most worked up about were the Guardian’s new nesting system for online comments and the temporary absence of coloured title bars in Windows 10.
Michael Bulley
Chalon-sur-Saône, France

• Now our embattled PM knows what a hostile environment is.
Andrew McKeon
Otley, West Yorkshire

• I note that Robert Hammersley finds “in general boys prefer to sing in their own choir” (Letters, 11 December). This is far from the case in my experience. When, in the 1960s, my all-boys school was invited to join a girls’ school choir for a Christmas concert, the stampede to join our previously rather poorly attended one was really quite impressive.
Jimmy Hibbert
Manchester

• Did Cliff Richard’s mother (Sir Cliff: 60 Years in Public and Private, 11 December) really call him Cliff? When did she stop calling him Harry?
Ray Chenery
Darwen, Lancashire

• To improve his chances of publication, may I suggest Martin Hemingway sets his novel in Cornwall (Letters, 12 December)?
Jonathan Jacoby
Redruth, Cornwall

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