Straight to the POINT

SERIAL referenda on one issue until those in power get the answer they want is tyranny, not democracy. Dr R. ELLIS, Oxford. ON £1.53 billion sales, McDonald’s UK paid £56 million in corporation tax — almost the cost to local authorties of collecting takeaway packets tossed away by its customers. RAY H. DOVER, Ingatestone, Essex. ANYONE who thinks they can’t endure four hours of ‘hunger’ on a BA flight (Mail) should turn on the TV to see what real hunger looks like. MARY LAND, Lechlade, Glos. HOW come Kenya is having a famine when I can buy vegetables from there in my local Sainsbury’s? B. COUPE, Chelmsford, Essex. I’M CONCERNED probate rates will unjustifiably rise yet again in future Budgets, just as Insurance Premium Tax has been used as a stealth tax. I. KITCH, Woking, Surrey.