Straight to the POINT

DEGREES ‘Costa’ the same as a posh coffee a day (Mail) and, shamefully, average lectures don’t last much longer, either (about 2½ hours a day).

Mrs DAWN ELKIN, Solihull, West Mids.

HOW does the Electoral Commission monitor whether an online voter isn’t being coerced to vote for a particular candidate? It can’t happen in an election booth, but someone standing behind a weak person at home . . ?

CHRISTOPHER ELLIS, Colkirk, Norfolk.

HAS Sir John Chilcot written any other history books?

MELVYN ABRAHAMS, Edgware, Middx.

AN OBVIOUS way to prevent children using social networking sites when they should be sleeping (Mail) is to unplug the wireless router at bedtime. It might be beneficial to parents, too: sometimes it’s good not to be in touch.

JULIA PICKLES, Lower Binton, Warks.

A NEW survey has shown that 50 per cent of surveys contradict each other, 40 per cent are structured to give the results the sponsors require and the other 10 per cent are just wrong because people don’t want to tell the truth.

ALAN STEAD, Loftus, N. Yorks.

THE NHS isn’t ‘free at the point of need’ (Letters), would that it were. It is, though, free at the point of use — an entirely different concept.

EDWARD BAKER, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

÷CHIMPS can grunt in different languages (Mail)? So what? Teenagers have been doing that for years.

TREVOR COLLINS, Grimsby, Lincs.