Straight to the POINT

I’M DELIGHTED that the Freedom of Information Act is having a chilling effect on civil servants and ministers (Mail). I hope it sends a shiver of apprehension down their spines the next time they think about trying it on.

JOHN GREEN, Reading, Berks. IT SEEMS clear to me that the blame for the VW car emissions problem (Mail) should placed squarely on the robots who build them.

JOHN H. ISRAEL, Bromley, Kent. DAVID CAMERON has pledged millions more for refugees, and George Osborne has given China £3 million for football — while Iain Duncan Smith takes money from the unemployed and the sick. What a team.

JAMES LEE, London WC2. SUE DUNN says she’s ‘tried everything to help’ her 14-year-old son give up smoking — but she hasn’t done the one thing that would probably work: giving up the habit herself. Has she never heard of leading by example?

ANGUS GAFRAIDH, London E11. THE mother who fabricated a story that a Primark security guard snatched her child from her breast has been warned she faces a custodial sentence, but we all know this won’t happen. Why does the judiciary issue these empty threats?

IAN ANDERSON, Broseley, Shropshire. AS A child, I remember the rush for the cinema exit when the National Anthem was about to be played (Letters). I thought it was so we could get to the fish and chip shop first.

Mrs PAMELA BODROG, Dewsbury, Yorks. DELIA DERBYSHIRE did the electronics on the Doctor Who theme but she didn’t compose it (Mail). It was composed by my husband, the late Ron Grainer, who collaborated with Delia to get the sound he had mentally envisaged.

JENNY GRAINER, Lagoa, Portugal.