Straight to the POINT

I APPLAUD your stance calling for reform of the foreign aid Britain pays. That discredited department should be disbanded, with no golden big payoffs and no secret re-employment. W. J. KENNERLEY, Denbighshire.

WHY the sudden zeal to add folic acid to flour? When I was pregnant with my daughter in 1968, we mothers-to-be were given folic acid in pill form as a matter of course. Why not just do the same now? JEANETTE LITTLEY, Chislehurst, Kent.

DIANE ABBOTT and Emily Thornberry (Mail) should adopt one of Groucho Marx’s sayings and tell everyone ‘these are my principles . . . and if you don’t like them, I have others’. GEOFF TURNER, Lytham St annes, Lancs.

WHO told Alex Salmond (Mail) that Europe would have no issue with a special deal for Scotland? Maybe it was Mike Russell after those top-level chats he imagined he was having with the Spanish. tom PATTERSON, Stirling.

PAUL SINCLAIR (Mail) is correct to say Alex Salmond will never be silenced. Interesting that he is now so often at odds with Nicola Sturgeon. Who really is the power in the party, I wonder? K. GALBRAITH, via email.

THE removal of the picture of Lord Carey from display at King’s College London is yet another example of how those who hold traditional Biblical views are denied freedom of expression in this country, despite Theresa May’s assurances. J. LONGSTAFF, buxted, East Sussex.

I LAUGHED at Quentin Letts’s attempts to buy a Christmas gift for his wife. I got it very right one year – only to be told I’d spent too much! It simply seems us guys just can’t win in the present stakes. Name and address supplied.