Sir – There were a number of letters in the May 1 edition again expressing anger at the cancelling of the Cowley Road Passion Play.


Since Julian Alison from the Oxford City Council’s ‘Licensing Team’ has apologised for his mistake, shouldn’t Christians now be queuing up to give him hugs of forgiveness, rather than blowing more tempests in teapots?


I challenge the notion that everyone should have heard of Passion Plays. I’m glad Mr Hughes (Letters, May 1) loves Bach’s St Matthew Passion. I do too. However, while shopping on Cowley Road, I took the liberty of asking 10 randomly selected people if they had heard of this piece of music. Two had, and the other eight looked at me as if I were mad.


British society is multicultural. There’s no getting around it. If we didn’t want a multicultural society, we shouldn’t have colonised half the world.


In my view, it is this multiculturalism which makes our society so interesting and so special. Cultural arrogance, and the assertion of one culture’s precedence over another is how Nazism got started.


Daniel Emlyn-Jones, Oxford