We’re no strangers to love on this island | Brief letters
Reflecting on Starmer’s speech | Michael Rosen’s poem | Human kindness | People over pets | Dog-friendly garden decor
Thank you for the letters (16 May) about Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech. The item in John Crace’s Digested Week (16 May) on the same subject was magnificent. I also loved Michael Rosen’s poem (My Island of Strangers, 17 May). Thinking of poems, as I read Duncan Campbell’s obituary (16 May), I thought of his wife Julie Christie’s poem in praise of sprouts, written for a charity book and republished in the Observer in 2008.
Margaret Vandecasteele
Cupar, Fife
• Like Michael Rosen, during a recent hospital stay, I was fortunate to be cared for by an island of strangers. My surgeon was Dutch, his No 2 was Irish; the rest of the excellent staff were predominantly Asian or African, and one of the nurses was aptly named Precious.
Adrianne LeMan
London
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Reflecting on Starmer’s speech | Michael Rosen’s poem | Human kindness | People over pets | Dog-friendly garden decor
Thank you for the letters (16 May) about Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech. The item in John Crace’s Digested Week (16 May) on the same subject was magnificent. I also loved Michael Rosen’s poem (My Island of Strangers, 17 May). Thinking of poems, as I read Duncan Campbell’s obituary (16 May), I thought of his wife Julie Christie’s poem in praise of sprouts, written for a charity book and republished in the Observer in 2008.
Margaret Vandecasteele
Cupar, Fife
• Like Michael Rosen, during a recent hospital stay, I was fortunate to be cared for by an island of strangers. My surgeon was Dutch, his No 2 was Irish; the rest of the excellent staff were predominantly Asian or African, and one of the nurses was aptly named Precious.
Adrianne LeMan
London
Continue reading...
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