Wonderful Ian is no ordinary Jack | Brief letters

Ian Jack’s pieces | Disappearing dining cars | Tax balance | Albums’ 50th anniversaries | Piano motivationIan Jack’s Saturday pieces on street trees (13 May) and railway catering (20 May) are among the most recent in a long series of wonderful journalistic essays with which he has graced your newspaper. Their skilful blend of reliable research, personal reminiscence and, where appropriate, measured social or political criticism has enlightened and delighted us for years. Long m