Straight to the POINT

÷ THE primary ‘cuts’ needed in the NHS are an effective means of charging appropriate fees to foreign patients and stopping elective surgery — for good.

J. LONG, Cheltenham, Glos. ÷ WITH Paddy McGuinness and Bradley Walsh in the squad (Mail), England manager Sam Allardyce now has 24 comedians to pick from.

ROY WAITE, Hartlepool. ÷ AS A bonus for the millions of viewers of Celebrity Pointless, they should have a phone-in competition to guess who the celebrities are . . .

MICHAEL WHITEHALL, Derby. ÷ IF THERE’S no company willing to provide security at the Labour Party conference, who will protect Owen and Corbyn from each other?

DAVID EDWARDS, Leighton Buzzard, Beds. ÷ I ASKED my wife if she’d still love me if she won the Lottery (Mail). ‘Of course,’ she replied, ‘I’d miss you, but I’d still love you.’

RALPH JERRAM, Gillingham, Dorset. ÷ SIR PHILIP GREEN’S inappropriately named yacht Lionheart reminds us that money can’t buy taste, even at the vast expense of others. It looks like a seagoing caravan.

IAN DUCKWORTH, Rochdale, Lancs. ÷ THE BHS story: Shifty Shades Of Green.

KEITH BARBER, Leeds. ÷ THE disaster in Italy is what our foreign aid should be for, not bribing Pakistani politicians and buying fleets of Rolls-Royces for African dictators.

PHIL NORTH, Brigg, Lincs. ÷ ARE You Being Served? and Porridge remakes — what a waste of BBC money. It would have been cheaper and funnier to have shown one of the original shows.

SANDRA PARSONS, Keston, Kent. ÷ ITV turned off for an hour the other day (Mail). Perhaps this could be extended to two hours, and then maybe three . . . RAY GRIFFIN, Doncaster.