Two important facts to keep in mind when reading Helen Parr’s study of the Parachute Regiment (Review, 15 September) is that this is the regiment that killed 11 unarmed civilians at Ballymurphy in Northern Ireland between 9 and 11 August 1971, and, in Derry on Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972, killed another 13 unarmed civilians, and wounded 15, one of whom died four months later.
Paul Gunnion
Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire
• If we live in the deterministic “matrix” outlined by Yuval Noah Harari in his article “The myth of freedom” (Review, 15 September), his awareness of it surely suggests that freedom is not a myth.
Christine Crossley
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
• On his visit to the Wigtown Bookshop (Travel, 15 September), Peter Ross talked to Sandy McKnight, who claims to be Scotland’s most-tattooed man. Before he decides to have further decoration, on normally unseen parts, he might do well to reflect on the wonderful Victoria Wood sketch in which a customer asked the tattooist for a Ferrari to be put on his private parts but was advised against it as “in cold weather it would look like a Reliant Robin”.
Helen Keating
Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire
• The easier it is to get divorced, the more happy marriages there will be, (Proposals for no-fault divorce to ‘end blame game’, 15 September).
Mick Beeby
Bristol
• Lucy Mangan’s insightful review of Killing Eve is excellent (G2, 17 September). I would love to read her views on the recent correspondence about herself (Letters, passim).
Betty Clarke
Malvern, Worcestershire
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