Straight to the POINT

I MEAN, every sentence used to start with ‘so’, but now, I mean, it seems that every sentence has to start with ‘I mean’. JoHn WHaPsHott, Westbury, Wilts.

ALLOW Americans a speedier route through passport control? No, send them to the back of the queue and treat them as rudely as they treat UK citizens travelling to the U.S. HeatHer kniGHt, oxford.

IN THE envelope with the results of my health check was a Co-op Funeralcare leaflet. Do they know something I don’t? GeoFF Cook, Gateshead, tyne & Wear. DO THE steaks hurled over jail walls for inmates to feast on have a cell-by date? VinCent HeFter, richmond, surrey.

WITH her talk of another independence referendum, Nicola Sturgeon is whistling in the dark. With all polls indicating ‘the dream that shall never die’ has expired, she is – to borrow from Margaret Thatcher – frit. alex CaMPBell, Glasgow. GWYNETH PALTROW’S website Goop has missed a trick. Why isn’t it selling snake oil? niCola Jane sWinney, Bromley, kent.

INSTEAD of being pictured picking up a few bottles on a beach, why doesn’t Lewis Hamilton give away some of his millions to a charity that clears plastic from the sea? tony GreGG, nottingham.

SOLVE two problems in one: raise VAT by 5 per cent for online sales and knock 5 per cent off VAT for in-store purchases. ron sMitH, Wigan, lancs.