Straight to the POINT

I WOULDN’T want to be the umpire who has to deny a bowling Ben Stokes an LBW decision.

JOHN COLLINS, Chelmsford, Essex.

I MEAN, every sentence used to start with ‘so’, but now, I mean, it seems that every sentence has to start with ‘I mean’.

JOHN WHAPSHOTT, Westbury, Wilts.

ALLOW Americans a speedier route through passport control? No, send them to the back of the queue and treat them as rudely as they treat UK citizens travelling to the U.S.

HEATHER KNIGHT, Oxford.

IN THE envelope with the results of my health check was a Co-op Funeralcare leaflet. Do they know something I don’t?

GEOFF COOK, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear.

DO THE steaks hurled over jail walls for inmates to feast on have a cell-by date?

VINCENT HEFTER, Richmond, Surrey.

GWYNETH PALTROW’S website Goop has missed a trick. Why isn’t it selling snake oil?

NICOLA JANE SWINNEY, Bromley, Kent.

THOSE who vandalised Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house and car signed their names — scum.

ANTHONY LATTER, Stanmore, Middlesex.

INSTEAD of being pictured picking up a few bottles on a beach, why doesn’t Lewis Hamilton give away some of his millions to a charity that clears plastic from the sea?

TONY GREGG, Nottingham.

SOLVE two problems in one: raise VAT by 5 per cent for online sales and knock 5 per cent off VAT for in-store purchases.

RON SMITH, Wigan, Lancs.

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