Straight to the POINT

÷ I’M ALL for the BBC closing the gender pay gap — reduce wages to no higher than £200,000 for men and women alike. BRIAN MASON, Swadlincote, Derbys. ÷ BY REMOVING punitive tax rates for high earners and having a 20 per cent income tax levy across the board, would there be less tax dodging and more tax income overall? MELV AVIS, St Germans, Cornwall. ÷ THE tax avoiders haven’t done anything wrong. They have just been caught doing nothing wrong. GEOFFREY PALMER, Nottingham. ÷ WITH the BBC pulling its big budget Christmas drama over sex crime claims, it has the perfect excuse to trot out repeats. Could I use last year’s licence to watch them? C. GOODALL, Portsmouth, Hants. ÷ IT’S the time of year when the adverts are better than the TV shows. RAYMOND GRIFFIN, Doncaster. ÷ SHOULD the BBC’s political editor be renamed Laura Dooms-Berg? STEPHEN PERKINS, Grimsby. ÷ THE Queen may have forbidden any punishment of the footman who walloped Prince Andrew (Mail), but if he’d smacked one of her corgis, he would have been strung up! BRIAN MOONEY, Walmer, Kent. ÷ HALF of our schoolchildren can’t spell, yet my eight-year-old granddaughter’s just been learning Roman numerals. I’m LIVID. ALAN JARRETT, Rochester, Kent.