Straight to the POINT

WHY wasn’t airport-style security introduced in prisons decades ago? GODFREY H. HOLMES, Withernsea, E. Yorks.

THOUGH I would love Anton du Beke to be a Strictly Come Dancing judge (Letters), I’d prefer him to keep dancing. SHEELAGH DAVIDSON, Belfast.

LORNA Slater, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, says she trained with the circus for four months last year. She must feel right at home with the clowns at Holyrood. ROBERt D KNOx, Bishopbriggs, Dunbartonshire.

JEREMY CORBYN as caretaker prime minister? I wouldn’t trust him with the key to the broom cupboard. DAVID MOORE, Barton-under-Needwood, Staffs. WOULD MPs appoint Count Dracula as caretaker at a blood bank? IAN CRANStON, Worcester.

WHAT a joy to listen to Zoe Ball’s holiday stand-in Amol Rajan. Instead of the usual shouting, he has a lovely, calming voice. JENNY GOUGH, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

IS THERE an in-between phrase for the sloppy ‘me and my wife’ and the regal ‘my wife and I’ (Letters)? How about ‘we’? S. A. GOSS, Cambridge. IS SIMON COWELL running those teeth in for a racehorse? JOHN StEVENSON, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. IN A poll for the most irritating person on TV, I’d vote for the BBC’s Naga Munchetty. COLIN BROWN, Wirral, Merseyside. 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