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The communications lecturer ARE Taylor believes old media formats are “presented as the remedy for our digital ailment” (Editorial, 11 June). As a 65-year-old whose journey in music began with a transistor radio, moved on to a radio cassette player and eventually to a record player, I can testify that these old technologies were just as “addictive, unnatural, unhealthy and harmful” as today’s, but in a beautiful, exciting, memory-filled, crackly sort of a way.
Alex Dickie
Edinburgh

• Your list (Sing when you’re winning: the 20 greatest songs about football – ranked!, 4 June) surprised me by not including Fitba’ Crazy, written in the 1880s by James Curran. Sung by Jimmie MacGregor and Robin Hall with a strong Scottish brogue, it was released as a single in the 1960s. Surely it is the oldest football song, and ought to be the Scotland anthem in the World Cup.
Richard Gosnell
Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire

• Someone should remind Elon Musk of the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie’s words: the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced (Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX ends trading day with valuation of $2.1tn, 12 June).
Jacqueline Warner
Totland Bay, Isle of Wight

• Who are these people who get to speak to a qualified doctor (NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation, 14 June)?
Alison White
Rugeley, Staffordshire

• I loved the picture of the five redoubtable ladies paying tribute to the sublime Nora Batty (Flaming Nora, print edition, 12 June). But were they wearing wrinkled stockings?
Jane Gregory
Emsworth, Hampshire

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