One rape in Friday’s Shetland was harrowing enough (Drama has a duty to reflect the terrible realities of rape, 20 February). The female bartender’s ordeal conveyed the brutality and injustice of sexual assault perfectly. Det Sgt Alison McIntosh’s rape only served to portray female police officers as weak and vulnerable. I doubt we’ll be made to endure a male police officer experiencing the same humiliation this week.
Martha King
Riccall, North Yorkshire
• It is so good to see the cabinet setting an example to hospital doctors by meeting on a Saturday for the first time in 40 years (Cameron strikes new EU deal, 20 February).
Robin Richmond
Bromyard, Herefordshire
• My Guardian has recently included various travel offer brochures which I have binned. However, in view of both the pending EU referendum and the US primaries, could I now request some replacements? Please do not trouble with those covering only short breaks. Thanks.
Martin Jeeves
Cardiff
• As a software developer, I’m always amazed when I see a colleague pecking away with two index fingers while staring at the keyboard, particularly when they haven’t noticed that the text box into which they think they are typing has lost the focus and is not accepting input (Letters, 19 February). A keyboard is, for most knowledge workers, their primary tool and to be deficient in its use seems wilfully incompetent.
Edward Collier
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
• I was educated at a girls school in the 1960s that prided itself on being “academic”. We were expressly discouraged from learning to type as, under no circumstances, should we become secretaries. If only ...
Mary Gamper
Truro, Cornwall
• If we abolish the apostrophe (Letters, 20 February), what will greengrocer’s do?
John Filsak
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
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