Straight to the POINT

■ I DON’T suppose those overpaid peers who voted in favour of the rights of Europeans to stay here employ cheap French au pairs or Bulgarian chauffeurs, do they? BRIAN LYNCH, Brentwood, Essex. ■ IF RESEARCHERS want to put the world’s oldest fossils under the microscope (Mail), why don’t they just examine the members of the House of Lords? Mr P. BENNISON, Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear. ■ IS THE rise in SUVs (Mail) connected to the increase in potholes and road humps? DAVE BROOK, Huddersfield, W. Yorks. ■ QUENTIN LETTS quotes Lord Hailsham as using the expression the ‘high moral ground’ (Mail). I re-branded this ‘the hill of hypocrisy’. S. M. TOWERS, Wigton, Cumbria. ■ ONCE upon a time, when you were no longer required at work, you were given a sack to take your tools. Now they give you a plastic bag. Soon you’ll be charged 5p for it. DEREK TRAYLER, Hornchurch, Essex. ■ ORLANDO BLOOM and Katy Perry are taking a break from their relationship. As Catherine Tate might say: ‘Are we bovvered?’ DIANE SILVA, Lytham, Lancs. ■ IN KEEPING with the Olympic spirit, should the Queen take away Bradley Wiggins’s knighthood and give it to Chris Froome? CHARLES COOK, Huddersfield, W. Yorks. ■ I’M NOT surprised there aren’t enough detectives (Mail). They’re all on TV. NIK MORTON, Alicante, Spain. For permission to copy cuttings for internal management and information purposes, please contact the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), PO Box 101, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1WX. Tel: 01892 525273. e-mail: copy@nla.co.uk