Straight to the POINT

÷ JUSTIN WELBY has nothing to fear from his Bishops’ Conference. Only this weekend, both I and the mighty BBC were singing of a Church ‘by schisms rent asunder, by heresies distressed’ — and that hymn was written in 1860.

GODFREY H. HOLMES, Withernsea, East Yorks. ÷ IT’S hardly surprising new Shadow Defence Secretary Emily Thornberry is on a different planet from the rest of us. Her initials are E.T.

CHERYL HAWKINS, Hastings, Sussex. ÷ I’VE just heard a BBC spokesman utter some common sense! He said: ‘I feel much safer when would-be terrorists leave for Syria than if they remained among us.’ And so say all of us.

BRIAN COE, Levenshulme, Greater Manchester. ÷ WHAT should we read into the fact that over the past year there has been a 1,200 per cent increase in sales of adult colouring books?

BOB WOODLAND, Poole, Dorset. ÷ ONE is appalled at the use of duvets at Windsor Castle (Mail) — so not Downton Abbey.

ERIC BARNES, Quinton, West Mids. ÷ NO WONDER the BBC pleads poverty when it pays two commentators and six people to discuss an FA Cup tie. Sky manages with only three.

JANET GODDARD, Seascale, Cumbria. ÷ WHEN I was young, there used to be a Gentlemen versus Players cricket match. It couldn’t happen now: you’d have a job finding 11 gentlemen in the game today.

BERNARD BOWLEY, Wells, Somerset. ÷ HAVE all the ‘lifers’ who were let out of prison for Christmas returned?

M. CLAYTON, Halifax, West Yorks. ÷ IS CHIEF Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies a teetotaller? She looks as though a good glass of red wine might cheer her up.

WARWICK BANKS, Grantham, Links.