Straight to the POINT

÷ FOR years, Jerry has had to take second billing to Tom. If Corbyn wins the Labour leadership and Watson the deputyship, it’ll at last be a case of Jerry & Tom.

SANDRA PARSONS, Keston, Kent. ÷ WE SHOULD encourage Speaker John Bercow to use public transport, where he’d probably get away with half fare.

M.J. STAYTON, Banbury, Oxon. ÷THE Americans telling us how to make tea (Mail)? In Boston they soaked it in salt water.

TIM TOPPS, Oxford. ÷ BE CAREFUL who you fall out with — it may cost you an arm and a legacy.

VINCENT HEFTER, Richmond, Surrey. ÷ DISGRACED Lord Sewel may have shown a lack of judgment in cavorting with prostitutes and taking drugs, but his views on the political elite are spot on.

JANET BYRNE, Harrow, Middx. ÷ I’M WONDERING how much income tax that London rickshaw cyclist pays while working in this country on a tourist visa and charging £206 for a one-mile journey.

B. STONE, Banstead, Surrey. ÷SCIENTISTS now tell us that snakes once had legs (Mail). That’s nothing new. The Bible tells us how the snake lost its legs in Genesis chapter 3.

R.D. LANCASTER, Bristol. ÷ THE mother pushing her broken-down car to the side of the road shouldn’t have been breathtested (Mail). Anything on four wheels which is broken down is effectively a pushchair.

MELVYN AVIS, Cornwall. ÷ THERE’S a secret plan to deploy armed troops on UK streets after a major terror attack. Wouldn’t it be better to prevent such an atrocity rather than react to it?

DENNIS NISBET, Whickham, Tyne & Wear.