Straight to the POINT

WHY are they described as tax giveaways in the Budget? It’s just taking less tax.

R. BRADSHAW, Cowbridge, Glamorgan.

CONTRAST the actions of brave coppers running to a crashed helicopter with that of a senior Met officer who did nothing during the Westminster terrorist attack.

KEVIN LEARY, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear.

HAVING endured Sober October, I’m looking forward to Bender November.

M. BARTRAM, Sherborne, Dorset.

COULD league tables be to blame for a rise in pupils suffering from anxiety (Mail)?

JOHN BEE, Oldham, Lancs.

CAN someone name and shame the dozens of MPs who accept hospitality from countries with appalling human rights records?

MIRIAM LANGLEY, Coventry.

NO DOUBT the biography of Prince Charles (Mail) was expected to garner sympathy, but it is self-centred and cruel.

M. HARRISON, address supplied.

IF WOMEN are recruited to the SAS as a sop to feminist lobbying or PC ideology, they and we are being betrayed.

A. R. CATER, Grays, Essex.

‘WHAT’S happened to the Britain I love?’ Delsie Gayle, who was racially abused on a holiday flight, speaks for us all.

MICHAEL VAN DIGGELEN, Aldwick, W. Sussex.

EVERY Fresher should read the Mail’s report on the student who died of alcohol poisoning after an initiation pub crawl.

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