Straight to the POINT

IF OUR Hackney North and Stoke Newington Labour MP needs a name for her latest fanciful project, it should be Diane Abbott Foundation Trust — a very precise self-portrait.

REGI LUTCHMAYA, London N8. WHEN the history of the last two decades of the 20th century and the first two of the 21st comes to be written, it will be apparent that the sole foreign policies of the Western democracies were shovelling vast amounts of aid to some corrupt regimes and bombing the others.

P. WILLIAMS, Manchester. WHY will David Cameron not just admit that the people most likely to commit acts of terrorism on our streets are people who already live here, not those in tunnels in Syria?

PHIL NORTH, Brigg, Lincs. ÷ HOW long before mobile phone dependency is declared a mental illness?

D.J. FOX, Oadby, Leics. I’VE just received my annual Income Tax summary showing how my tax was spent, including £63 to ‘overseas aid’. Should I write to Robert Mugabe and ask if his Swiss bank will send me a receipt?

ALAN JARRETT, Rochester, Kent. BLACK Friday — the last day your bank account was in the black.

KAY SEELEY, Harrow, Middx. SHADOW Chancellor McDonnell should tell the bloke in beige sitting next to him that Chairman Mao said: ‘War can only be abolished through war.’

GARY STRYDON, Littlehampton, Sussex. PLEASE tell newly single Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Beckinsale (Mail), I’m free next Tuesday …

STEVE MEDLOW, Barton-on-Sea, Hants.