Straight to the POINT

NO NEED to bomb Syria, Mr Cameron, the latest missive from Clarence House says we should just turn down our central heating to defeat ISIS.

PETER WORTHINGTON, Burnley. LORD FELDMAN is safe as long as he’s an effective buffer between David Cameron and his pursuers. Once they get too close, Feldman will be sacrificed. It’s the way of politics.

JOHN COLLINS, Chelmsford, Essex. FOR the global warming conference in Paris, I didn’t see any world leaders arriving in small electric cars, only huge limos and 4x4s.

ROY RANDALL, Brentwood, Essex. CENTURIES ago, the economist Thomas Robert Malthus concluded that, having eliminated natural predators, unless we practise voluntary restraint, our population will be limited by resources — hunger and disease. Until we grasp this nettle, whatever else we do will be, at best, a palliative.

FRANK WALLIS, Loughton, Essex. INSTEAD of taxing sugar, why not add a ‘health’ surtax on the profits and council rates of fast food premises?

PETE WILLIAMS, Hayes, Middx. WITH Christmas lights being turned on all over the country for weeks now, will we have Easter eggs under the tree on Christmas Eve?

JOHN REDDY, Lisserbroek, Netherlands. TAXPAYERS are paying for driving lessons for prisoners (Mail). Is this so they can drive the getaway car when they’re released?

Mrs BETTIE HALTON, Hockley, Essex. THOSE placard-carrying junior doctors (Mail) demonstrate a major problem facing the NHS: all those pictured are female, largely destined for part-time jobs.