Straight to the POINT

WE’RE told the slogan ‘White lives matter’ is offensive, but ‘Black lives matter’ isn’t. The simple solution is just add ‘too’ at the end of either statement. No one can argue with that.

RICHARD WITTERING, Milton Keynes, Bucks.

AFTER yet another U-turn from the SNP, this time on schools, could someone please explain to me just why these obviously incompetent people are held in regard by anyone in Scotland?

RoBERT D KNox, Bishopbriggs, Dunbartonshire.

PLEASE cut up the Chancellor’s credit cards before he bankrupts the country.

DAVID WHITE, Basingstoke, Hants.

I’VE just got a hospital appointment for a CT scan: January 1, 2099. I know there is a backlog because of Covid-19, but this seems excessive!

GERRY LAKE, Tadley, Hants.

LIKE the reader who discovered his mother assembled Spitfires (Letters), my mother Joan Hopping was a mechanic on Hurricanes and barrage balloons. I am so proud that the MoD has decided to award her a medal.

BEVERLEY JAMES, Thornbury, Glos.

WHAT is the most hackneyed, patronising and empty comment emanating regularly from government departments? ‘Lessons will be learned.’

GRAHAM GALWAY, Irby, Wirral.

WE must now be back to normal. I received my first nuisance phone call this morning.

RoNALD JAMES MBE, Kirriemuir, Angus.

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