QUICK VIEWS

HISTORY REPEATING

IT is no surprise to see the violence and seditious chaos in Washington being played out. The last days of despots and tyrants often end in such a manner.

Peter Taylor Midway Point

BREAKING BREAD THANKS to the US Republican Party, we now know what happens when you sup with the Devil.

Bob Holderness-Roddam

Austins Ferry

TAKING A STAB INTERESTING calculation from the Prime Minister, 80,000 COVID vaccinations per week starting in February resulting in 4 million vaccinated by the end of March (Mercury, January 8). Presumably he borrowed the Department of Finance’s calculator?

David O’Halloran

North Hobart

NOT PLAYING

JUST as the game was concluding, and the result was beyond doubt, he tears the Monopoly board in two! Oh, what a surprise.

Stephen Jeffery

Sandy Bay

TRAVELLERS BYPASSED DOES the South-East Traffic Management Plan, which encompasses a bypass of Sorell to the Arthur Highway, also incorporate a bypass to the Tasman Highway for the benefit of northeast-bound motorists?

Kenneth Gregson Swansea

FERRY UNFAIR

FREE ferry travel for mainlanders, my, my, and us poor Tassie buggers have to pay an arm and a leg if we want to travel on the ferry to the mainland if we want an interstate holiday.

Barry Ryan Glenorchy

DOUBLE SPEAK

WHEN work on the Midland Highway was starting, there was going to be two lines all the way to Launceston. The government must class passing lanes as a second lane. If not they didn’t say what decade it would be finished by. Mark Mifsud

Goodwood