Straight to the POINT

THE Chinese Super League is prepared to pay players £800,000 a week. Will it consider paying back the £3 million of UK taxpayers’ cash George Osborne gave it to develop the game in 2015?

M. TURNER, Colchester, Essex. THAT brainless £9.2 million handout aside, surely the last thing the world needs is another set of Spice Girls.

M. MARTIN, Ipswich, Suffolk. NOW we’re in the endless awards season, we must give one to the TV programme with the loudest, most tone-deaf, most moronic audience.

ARTHUR GEE, Formby, Merseyside. IF ANY of the burgeoning number of gender neutral people ever make it onto the Honours List, how will the monarch address them: ‘Arise . . . err . . . err . . . um..?’

DAVE OVERTON, Willoughby, Lincs. PLYMOUTH City Council should read Highway Code rule 248: ‘You must not park on a road at night facing against the direction of the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space.’ ‘Must not’ isn’t guidance, it’s a legal requirement.

DAVE BROOK, address supplied. THE Prime Minister should tell any ‘Sir Humphreys’ seeking a Brexit pay rise because they could earn more in the private sector (Mail) that their resignations have been accepted.

DAVID THOMPSON, Capel St Mary, Suffolk. I ENJOYED Ed Balls’s antics on Strictly, but would love to know how he got over his problem of constantly nodding like the Churchill dog advert when he was Shadow Chancellor.

DEREK BUTLER, Abergavenny. WITH the New Year well under way, is there any chance sports commentators will call it ‘twenty seventeen’, not ‘two thousand and seventeen’?

DAVID PITT, Walderslade, Kent.