Like Jonathan Freedland, I very much enjoy Blue Lights, in part because I feel like it is an accurate reflection of the Northern Ireland I know and grew up in (Blue Lights is more than great TV. It might be the best chance Britons have of reckoning with the Troubles, 24 October). I enjoyed his article linking the TV show to Bloody Sunday until the penultimate line, where he argues that for Northern Ireland “the tension between justice and peace – the sacrifice of one so often the price of the other – is a living, ever-present reality”.
How can these two things be in tension? Surely the very point of the Bloody Sunday campaign is that, for those affected, there can be no peace until there is justice. How can Northern Ireland be a just society when some are at peace while others are still fighting the war?
