How Great Thou Art and its Nazi rhythm | Brief letters

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You report that, as host DJ at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump routinely finishes an evening with the hymn How Great Thou Art (80s hits and nuclear secrets: security concerns plague Trump's Mar-a-Lago, 20 September). As a deputy organist, called on to play it on several occasions, I eventually realised why doing so had made me uneasy: the Horst Wessel song, the Nazi party's anthem, is rhythmically identical.
Peter Davis
Welwyn, Hertfordshire

I recall a TV series in which the economist JK Galbraith described the trickle-down theory (Ed Davey: Truss government is probably most rightwing in modern UK history, 21 September) as a bit like feeding oats to a horse on the assumption that some would pass through the horse to the benefit of the sparrows below. This image, and its underlying message, has stayed with me ever since.
Lisa Green
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire