Re Peter Bradshaw’s article on cinema-going after Covid (After the intermission: films are back in cinemas – but will the crowds return too?, 24 August), I recently took my seat in my local cinema and realised that I was the only mask wearer. I was shown a poster saying mask wearing is expected unless you are eating or drinking. I got a refund and left. I won’t return to a cinema that places sales of chocolate above the safety of punters.
John Warburton
Edinburgh
• Misquoted phrases (Letters, 26 August)? How about misspelled ones? The Bible I got on the day of my ordination had a misprint in Colossians chapter 3 verse 5 – an extra T that meant Saint Paul was addressing his readers about sexual immortality, a concept we were not taught at theological college.
Rev Trevor Smith
Plymouth
• Oh dear (Baby on Nevermind cover sues Nirvana over child sexual exploitation, 25 August). Eric Clapton and Stevie Winwood will now be worrying about the controversial artwork on the Blind Faith album back in 1969.
Ed Marshall
Scrooby, Nottinghamshire
• Gobsmacked that you published articles on the Beach Boys, Emmylou Harris and Charlie Watts. What happened to your policy of featuring bands that we baby boomers had never heard of, would never listen to and will be soon forgotten?
Don Macdonald
London
• No, the people’s flag has never been magnolia (Letters, 26 August). As we young liberals sang during the Butskell era: “The people’s flag is palest magenta, led from slightly left of centre.”
Stephen Jakobi
Richmond, London
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