Straight to the POINT

I AGREE with Craig Brown: why pay silly money to watch a band in an arena if you are so far from the stage you can only see the performance on the big screens (Mail)? M. SOUTHON, Ferndown, Dorset. KYLIE celebrates her 50th by posing nude with a guitar (Mail). Did she play Air On The G String? DIGBY C. HODGSON, Kendal, Cumbria.

SIMON MAYO, Jo Whiley and Sara Cox on Radio 2? Thank goodness my wireless has an off button and channel tuner. TERRY AUSTIN, Totnes, Devon.

THE deaths at Portsmouth’s Mutiny Festival are blamed on a ‘bad batch’ of drugs as though ‘ordinary’ ecstasy could be regarded as safe. PETER DAVEY, Bournemouth, Dorset.

THE Monaco Grand Prix was so boring. What do we expect when overtaking is impossible? DEREK W. EDGE, Macclesfield, Cheshire.

PEOPLE say there was no overtaking at the Monaco Grand Prix. How, then, did Max Verstappen go from 20th to ninth in his Red Bull? D. GREY, Glasgow.

THE garden is full of flowers, birds are singing — and there’s a heady aroma of beef burgers and sausages from next door’s barbie. SANDRA PARSONS, Keston, Kent.

SHONA Robison’s bungling at Health (Mail) shows the SNP cannot run a small devolved parliament, let alone an independent Scotland. D. GRIERSON, Glasgow. FOR permission to copy cuttings for internal management and information purposes, please contact the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), PO Box 101, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1WX. Tel: 01892 525273. e-mail: copy@nla.co.uk