Straight to the POINT

INSTEAD of refurbishment, pull down the tatty Houses of Parliament and build something worthy of a modern nation.

PAUL BRAZIER, Kingswood, Surrey.

WHEN did newsreaders become ‘news presenters’? Was it when they started to walk about while reading the Autocue?

C. NEWTON, Irthlingborough, Northants.

BBC News subtitles make me laugh. My favourites are five men arrested for importing classic ducks (Class A drugs) and a lady whose bank was rubbing salt in her wince — ouch!

MICHAEL POWELL, Winnersh, Berks.

HIGH-TECH TVs are capable of showing us vibrant colours, so why do we have to put up with dull and gloomy dramas?

GEOFF CARLTON, Rowlands Gill, Tyne & Wear.

WE HAVE the lords temporal, spiritual and now, it seems, condescending.

ALAN RITCHIE, Belfast.

I HATE the way, like, young people increasingly, like, misuse a certain word, like. It is really, like, irritating.

JOHN DWYER, Bournville, W. Mids.

THERE might be some truth in the Lefties’ claim that Winston Churchill was a racist. Historical evidence suggests he wasn’t too keen on the Germans between 1914 and 1918 and 1939 to 1945.

NIGEL KERR, Wellington, Somerset.

CAN’T Tory ministers and MPs see that every knife they plant in Theresa May’s back gets Corbyn closer to Downing Street?

HARRY T. KITCHEN, Carharrack, Cornwall.

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