Straight to the POINT

CLEARLY the leaders of the National Trust attended the Gerald Ratner School of Marketing. Light the blue touch paper, retire and watch your business self-destruct.

MIKE KIMBER, Hayward’s Heath, W. Sussex.

YET another example of the NT’s fondness for gesture politics. Get out of the hole you’re digging yourself into before you become a laughing stock.

DAVID HARVEY, Chippenham, Wilts.

IS the NT going to give back properties and legacies from people with such ‘shameful’ ancestry?

RICHARD BROOKES, bucknell, Shropshire.

IN view of the huge cost of Covid-19 to our economy, we should suspend our £15 billion a year foreign aid.

GERRY BYRNE, Snettisham, norfolk.

HAVING given China vast sums in foreign aid, why doesn’t it pay the UK compensation for the crippling cost of Covid-19?

PETER LAURIE, Colchester, essex.

HAS Piers Morgan blamed Boris for the dreadful whale stranding in Tasmania yet?

RICHARD CANEY, Wisbech, Cambs.

SALLY EMPSON (Letters) saying Covid killed fewer than many other ailments is ignoring a very simple fact: none of the other causes of death on her list are contagious.

KEN WOOD, newport, South Wales.

BORIS is prepared to deploy the Army to keep us in check. Shame he is not so inclined to muster them to police our borders.

COLIN PARKER, Gillingham, Dorset.

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