Straight to the POINT

THE assortment of over-the-hill ‘celebrities’ suggests the show should be re-named I’d Do Anything For Money . . . Get Me In Here!

B. DAVISON, Rugby, Warks. DO THE jailed Insulate Britain protesters call themselves lags?

PETER EVANS, Liverpool. TERRY WAITE has described being chained to a radiator for five years as ‘a little worse than lockdown’. We could learn from his example.

Mrs MYRA COPE, Crewe, Cheshire. IF THE apostrophe is redundant, why not go the whole hog and cancel the letters ‘H’ and ‘T’. To hear some talk, they’re already extinct.

BARBARA THOMAS, Billingshurst, W. Sussex. LEXICOGRAPHER Susie Dent tells us that any fears about the internet making language bland and monosyllabic have not materialised (Mail). R U sure, hun? Lol!

IAN MACDONALD, Billericay, Essex. CUTE Percy Pig stars in the Marks & Spencer Christmas ad. A bit insensitive to all those pigs in blankets set to be devoured!

AMANDA YATES, Wideopen, Tyne & Wear. HAVE I blinked and missed Christmas? My local newsagent is selling Easter eggs.

SONIA COUPE, Stalham, Norfolk. MY LATE husband, Fred William Smith, was a prison officer at Dartmoor when Frank ‘Mad Axeman’ Mitchell escaped (Letters). Despite his reputation as a hard man, Mitchell got on well with the staff and was useful when there was trouble with other inmates!

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