Straight to the POINT

÷ I’M THRILLED at the efficacious effects of selfdeprecating humour (Mail). Shame I’m rubbish at it! ALAN MEADoWS, Bolton. ÷ ALL the wonderful work of designer Margaret Calvert (Mail) is wasted if road signs are obstructed by trees. B. ToLMAN, Brentwood, Essex. ÷ PORTRAIT of Barack? You mean Obama and Bush. AFRA FERNANDES, Redbridge, Essex.

÷ AS A straight, white man, Jeremy Corbyn has banned himself from his own equalities conference.

C. JoSEPH, Lawford, Essex.

÷ I LOVED Craig Brown’s list of places Lord Lucan has been hiding (Mail). In the Seventies, TV comedy Not The Nine O’clock News reported he had been playing centre forward for Bristol City for five years.

BoB PHILLIPS, Bristol.