Straight to the POINT

WILL Speaker Bercow berate the House of Commons with ‘Border! Border!’

GODFREY H. HOLMES, Withernsea, E. Yorks.

THERESA MAY’S advent calendar: which minister will resign behind today’s door?

PAUL BRAZIER, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos.

IT’S not rail passengers insulted by the awarding of a CBE to the boss of Network Rail, but those who genuinely deserve this honour.

GRAHAM LUDLAM, South Wingfield, Derbys.

THE man in the street with a sandwich board proclaiming the end of the world is nigh has been replaced by BBC Breakfast.

ROBERT WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Coventry.

THE Queen could sell her ivory collection to pay for Harry and Meghan’s home alterations — before William has the artefacts destroyed.

W. G. FLEMMING, Framlingham, Suffolk.

DESPITE parsnips being made out to be villains by the Aldi adverts, like carrots, they are the perfect Christmas vegetable.

C. FULLER, Milton Keynes, Bucks.

THE BBC has loos for its 2 per cent of staff who are transgender. Surely this is an inconvenience for the other 98 per cent.

PAULA BREWSTER, Diss, Norfolk.

AMANDA PLATELL suggests larger air passengers should buy two seats (Mail). On Ryanair, they’d be allocated seats 6A and 23F.

PAT HAYWARD, St Albans, Herts.

THE real reason for Thomas Cook’s poor business results is the value of the pound, not Britain’s hot summer (Mail).

L. G. FARLEY, Honiton, Devon.

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