Straight to the POINT

THE alleged complicity of our security services with the CIA’s use of torture makes grim reading. How long will it be before Donald Trump is blamed for the whole thing?

TONY TOWERS, Pamington, Glos.

A. N. WILSON asks why the BBC only features comedians who are ‘puerile, unfunny, Leftie bores’ (Mail). It’s because those who run the BBC are puerile, unfunny, Leftie bores.

BOB PHILLIPS, Bristol.

THE Australians are building Britishdesigned warships in a deal worth £20bn. Have they checked they will work in warm waters? JAMES B. SINCLAIR, st helier, Jersey.

CONGRATULATIONS to Prince Charles on single-handedly trying to produce more CO2 than any other individual on the planet.

M. SOUTHON, Ferndown, Dorset.

LAST week I travelled more than 1,500 miles by train in England and Scotland, but I did not see a single wind turbine turning nor any solar panels on the roofs of hundreds of new-build houses.

Graham luDlam, south wingfield, Derbys.

ONE reason why so many NHS appointments are missed is because it’s so difficult to cancel. When I needed to change one, it took an hour and 50 minutes to get through — and then I wasn’t allowed to arrange a new appointment.

LYNDA HADFIELD, Towcester, northants.

AN ENGLISHMAN’S home is his castle . . . providing it’s not in the path of a proposed runway or railway line.

R. A. BRADLEY, hockwood, norfolk.

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