Straight to the POINT

■ WHY is that the people in power never seem to understand that if one makes no serious attempt to solve a problem, no matter how trivial, it only has the effect of multiplying what started out as a pimple on Hydra’s head into a plague of Gorgons.

LIAM POWER, Dundalk, Co. Louth.

■ MADONNA splits from her much younger lover. In other news, scientists find out the sun is hot and water is wet. MARK COHEN, by email.

■ IT’S depressing that my hairdresser spends more time trimming my eyebrows than my hair.

CHRISTOPHER ELLIS, by email.

■ PRESIDENT John F. Kennedy was the last leader in the West who knew how to treat bullies. The US is now a toothless tiger.

ANTHONY LATTER, by email.