Another Guardian link to the Keira Knightley film The Woman in Cabin 10 | Brief letters

The Woman in Cabin 10, in which Keira Knightley stars as a Guardian journalist (Report, 10 October), was co-scripted by Joe Shrapnel, grandson of Norman Shrapnel, the legendary Guardian reporter, parliamentary sketch writer and theatre critic. When Norman died in 2004, my father, WL Webb, who as the paper’s literary editor regularly employed Shrapnel as a fiction reviewer, described how his “ironic edge and sharp eye for social detail made him the much-imitated master of a whole generation of Guardian writers”. Kate Webb London • The government plans to require migrants coming to the UK to learn English to an A-level standard (Politics live with Andrew Sparrow, 14 October). How many current UK residents can demonstrate this level? Liz Thompson Oxford • Jean Holmes says she was given three copies of Jilly Cooper’s How to Stay Married (Letters, 10 October). I wonder if they were secondhand. Pete Bibby Sheffield • I remember lending my sister Riders by Jilly Cooper. She became so engrossed that she almost failed to collect her son from nursery. When I passed the book on to Mum, my sister said she would never be able to look her in the eye again. Penny Snook Collingham, Nottinghamshire • What next for Venezuela: 1,000% tariffs or a Riviera-style resort (Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize, 10 October)? Jude Carr London • Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.