Straight to the POINT

÷ I’VE just bought from my local vet a pipette containing one millilitre of flea control for my small dog. It cost £11.80 — that’s £11,800 a litre. It makes diamonds and caviar look cheap.

ALAN RUNAGALL, Rayleigh, Essex. ÷ WHAT chance is there of a Christian becoming Mayor of Islamabad?

L. HOWRIHANE, London. ÷ ISN’T it about time our MPs had a pay rise? It’s been weeks now since the last one.

COLIN BURGOYNE, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. ÷ IN RESPONSE to his hair being pulled, Marouane Fellaini smashed his elbow into Robert Huth’s neck. I dread to think what he would have done if his nose had been tweaked.

GEOFFREY LINDLEY, Ferndown, Dorset. ÷ JUDGING by the number of U-turns taking place there, Downing Street must be a cul-de-sac.

ROY WEST, Plumtree, Notts. ÷ JEREMY CLARKSON was in Top Gear for ages — shouldn’t he move into Overdrive?

PERCY JACKSON, Lee, Devon. ÷ THE Americans seem to have dispensed with collective nouns. We now have a bunch of men, a bunch of sheep, a bunch of cards, a bunch of cakes, etc. Originally, it was just a bunch of flowers.

Mrs PAT ROSS, Headington, Oxon. ÷ I’M ONE of the growing toll of pensioners with a drink problem — I can’t afford it!

RONALD BALL, Farnborough, Hants. ÷ LEICESTER won the Premier League at 5,000 to 1. Now there’s just Crystal Palace for the Cup and Donald Trump for President for the best treble there’s ever been. TERRY CALDON, Thanet, Kent. ÷ HOW come the Bafta awards had no glory for Ant and Dec. An oversight, surely? They always win. PETER NUGENT, Bootle.