Straight to the POINT

÷ THE Prime Minister should hire a nanny to change the baby’s nappies (Mail) and put all his energy into running the country.

SANDRA PARSONS, Keston, Kent.

÷ PLEASE, Rishi, take Boris to your tailor.

ANNA BROOKS, Calveley, Cheshire.

÷ HOW about a statue in memory of slavery acknowledging the suffering with the plaque: ‘Lest we forget.’?

Mrs J. NEAL, Sheringham, Norfolk.

÷ PUT the expensive paint job on hold. Add a large Union Jack to the tail of the official plane — job done.

Ms DEE MUTTER, address supplied.

÷ HOW much more can we take? First a pandemic, next a pantodemic.

ANTONY DEAN, Keighley, W. Yorks.

÷ A POSTCARD from a friend in Austria took 20 days to arrive. I didn’t know the quarantine also applies to post from abroad.

W. GEORGE TYSON, Crowborough, E. Sussex.

÷ ALL those bicycles sold in lockdown, but how many had a bell fitted?

TONY DAWSON-HILL, Harpenden, Herts.

÷ OH, THE irony of J. K. Rowling’s publisher having no spine.

ROBERT MAY, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.

÷ WHERE have all the swallows gone (Mail)? Wind farms around the coast are massacring millions of migrating birds.

JOHN MICHAEL FIRTH, Flamborough, E. Yorks.

÷ JULY 4 is our inn dependence day.

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