Straight to the POINT

÷IF MID-Staffs Hospital Trust is on its way to court (Mail), might we at last see the former head of the whole NHS take his turn in the dock?

GODFREY H. HOLMES, Withernsea, East Yorks. ÷ IN THE current Volkswagen crisis, don’t overlook the plight of Beastie Boys fans. What can they now hang around their necks?

DAVID STEEL, Dorking, Surrey. ÷ I’D JUST learned how to say hydroxychloroquine to anyone who asked what tablets I was taking when the doc took me off them and put me on flucloxacillin. Damn!

DES THORPE, Worksop, Notts. ÷ IF THOSE ex-husbands lied to the court about their wealth (Mail), shouldn’t they (and their accountants and solicitors) be charged with perjury?

STEVE JENNER, Christchurch, Dorset. ÷ I’VE just seen a picture of the Queen with a genuine smile. Has she run out of lemons?

A. CHEESEMAN, Brigg, Lincs. ÷ IF SCIENTISTS have really discovered God didn’t create the universe, can we look forward to cancelling Christmas?

JOHN EVANS, Wokingham, Berks. ÷ IF IMMIGRANTS can find and pay their way across thousands of miles, they can get from London to Manchester without a taxpayer-funded taxi (Mail). It would have been cheaper to give them an OS map.

PENNY BAILEY, Great Yarmouth. ÷ COLIN POWELL’S memo to U.S. President George Bush (Mail) has done the whole job for Chilcot. Blair is guilty as hell and should be charged as soon as possible with lying to the British public.

TONY WATTS, Braintree, Essex ÷ EIGHTY-four bishops (Mail)? That’s more than the congregation in some C of E churches.

A. GAMBLE, Norwich, Norfolk.