Straight to the POINT

■ WORRIES have been expressed (Mail) about football heading causing brain damage. What, then, about boxing, with its aim to knock somebody senseless?

NORMAN Brill, london N20.

■ OUR future King and Queen are going round in the midst of a pandemic to personally thank NHS workers, using a train to avoid disrupting cities, and people are moaning? Unbelievable!

SIMON CAMPBELL, Glasgow.

■ CAN you imagine the howls of faux outrage if they hadn’t included Scotland on their brief ‘thank you’ tour?

K. BENNETT, Fowey, Cornwall.

■ IN VIEW of the Brexit situation, should we be asking Iceland for the hire of their gunboats to stop foreigners stealing our fish?

ivor YEO, East Harptree, Bristol.

■ BORIS JOHNSON is aiming to turn the farmers from being wealth creators to caretakers.

ARTHUR MCFARLAND, Claudy, londonderry.

■ HOW painful for the Labour Party. They spend most of their time sitting on the fence.

JOHN EVANS, Wokingham, Berks.

■ AMAZING that five prime ministers prior to Boris believed that this country was no longer capable of making its own laws, controlling its borders and managing foreign trade.

r. MYERS, doncaster, S. Yorks.

■ AFTER the Brexit deadline, what chance have we got of policing our fishing waters when we can’t stop a few rubber dinghies crossing the English Channel?

IAN HARRINGTON, axminster, devon.

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