Straight to the POINT

£49 million for Raheem Sterling! What a great deal . . . for Liverpool).

GRAHAM WATSON, Upminster, Essex.

DOES being a hate preacher automatically exempt a man from having to be employed?

M. WILSON, Rayleigh, Essex.

HELP! I’m scared to open my wardrobe in case Clare Balding steps out.

GLENDA PRINCE, Orpington, Kent.

IS IT just me or does George Osborne resemble Sheldon from TV’s Big Bang Theory?

TOM MURRAY, Lisburn, Co. Antrim.

ASLEF union leader Mick Whelan, talking about the proposed anti-strike laws, mentions ‘. . . the minimum wage for the rest of us’. How many union leaders are on the minimum wage?

MICHAEL J. LOCKE, Rainham, Kent. ÷ THE incidence of narcissism has grown to such an extent that there are now more cases than you can shake a selfie stick at.

FRANK FAULKNER, Upper Beeding, W. Sussex. ÷ IF THE 50 per cent turnout rule proposed for trades union ballots was applied to parliamentary elections, 75 per cent of our MPs wouldn’t be there.

E. SYKES, Cumbria. ÷ WE REPORTED some giant hogweed (Mail) to our council, but were told they couldn’t do anything about it as we are not the landowner.

SUE ROWLEY, Brierley, S. Yorks. ÷ IF THE National Lottery made ten people a week millionaires rather than one £10 million winner, in 20 years, we’d have 10,400 home improvers, creating jobs, rather than 1,040 over-rich individuals.

MARGARET SMITH, Dover, Kent. ÷ GIVING James Bond the Broadway musical treatment (Mail) is nothing new. The satirical magazine MAD coined this idea in 1965.

DAVID ROBINSON, Peterborough, Cambs.