Straight to the POINT

I ASKED my sixth-form class: ‘Who was Winston Churchill?’ Almost unanimously, they said the nodding dog who sells insurance. JAMES WELLS, Billericay, Essex. SO LEN McCluskey thinks there are ‘dark forces at work’ preventing Jeremy Corbyn from getting into No 10. Methinks he has been reading too much Harry Potter. STEPHEN TONG, Pudsey, W. Yorks. IF PRESIDENT Macron was ‘cut down to size’ (Mail), would he be President Micron? ALAN NICHOLLS, Droitwich Spa, Worcs. IS IT a surprise half of twentysomethings don’t have any savings when they leave university in debt to the tune of £40,000? JOHN BENNETT, Wigan, Gtr Manchester. AS THE end of austerity approaches, let’s get that £850,000 bottle of Macallan whisky open and party! MERVYN CORNWALL, Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf. MY DAUGHTER lives in a flat in Berlin and groceries are delivered to her door by a polite, smiling man who doesn’t complain about carrying bags up two flights of stairs. CHRISTINE WALTERS, Penrith, Cumbria. WHY do they keep referring to the People’s Vote? Who do they think voted last time? J. A. PALMER, Tottington, Gtr Manchester. STUDENTS have banned clapping in favour of jazz hands on noise grounds. Have they also banned loud music, discos and drunken youngsters shouting in the street at all hours? G. SMITH, Hetton-le-Hole, Tyne & Wear. FOR permission to copy cuttings for internal management and information purposes, please contact the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), PO Box 101, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1WX. Tel: 01892 525273. e-mail: copy@nla.co.uk