Xavier Gallagher
Presumably the "illustrious" history of the Parachute Regiment does not include its time in Northern Ireland (Regiment ready for anything, September 11). Does Bloody Sunday ring a bell?
Nigel O'Donnell
London
"Sierra Leone is not worth the life of one British paratrooper," writes Alex Bayes (Letters, September 12). Is this a view really worth repeating in the Guardian? Please don't publish short letters for the sake of it, particularly when they are morally repugnant.
Gary Lancet
London
So cracks are appearing in the dome's Teflon coating (Report, September 11). Perhaps it's a more apt metaphor for New Labour than was at first apparent.
Martin and Penny Davis
Norwich
Re Massive Attack's Man Next Door (Letters, September 12): Poison Flour by Dr Alimantado is, in turn, a version of the earlier I've Got to Get Away, recorded originally by John Holt.
David Isaacs
London
And every indie music bore will tell you that the song sampled in the Massive Attack version is 10.15 on Saturday Night by early 80s miserabilists The Cure.
David Miller
Stirling
