Some precedent for the likely murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul is surely provided by the Israeli killing of Hamas’s Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January 2010 (Report, 17 February 2010). The hotel venue, and the body being found the next day, are different, but the fundamentals of the operation, and its audacity, are not so distinctive. Have the Saudis been taking lessons from the Israelis?
Prof Hugh Goddard
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Edinburgh
• It is sadly ironic that Maxine Peake (‘It feels as if hope has started to grow again’, G2, 17 October), at a Lancashire comprehensive school, was taught nothing of the Peterloo massacre, yet I was, at a liberal home counties independent school, as part of a broad social history curriculum.
Alan Cummins
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
• Steve Elsworth says he called all the pharmacies in town to find they’re out of flu jabs (Letters, 15 October). Has he tried calling his GP? I got a letter from mine in mid-September saying all Thursdays in October would have seven hours of walk-ins for flu jabs.
Suzan Delivuk
London
• I am addicted to my daily fix of the Word Wheel in G2, but confused by the instructions which insist “no foreign words, no proper nouns”. Doesn’t 16 October’s nine-letter word “Schnauzer” fall into both categories?
Marjorie Clark
Perth
• Digested read of ex-prime ministers, welfare experts, campaigning groups: universal credit, universally discredited.
Ron Mitchell
Coventry
• Is the Duchess of Sussex on a spousal visa (Letters, 17 October)?
Vivien Berry
Spalding, Lincolnshire
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