Straight to the POINT

Jean-Claude I SEE Tony Blair Juncker’s has a messenger new job as EC boy. President JIM BAKSTAD, Liverpool. dear PRINCESS old Queen Charlotte Mum. is a dead-ringer for the MICHAEL JENNINGS, Hartley, Kent. THE American phrase that annoys me the most (Letters) is ‘from the get go’. What’s wrong with ‘from the start’? Mrs GILL WOODHEAD, Stapleford, Notts. LORD ADONIS brought in student loans and a few years later thinks they should be scrapped. He also instigated HS2. Will it take him a few more years to acknowledge this costly mistake? ANDREW STEVENS, Chelmsford, Essex. EDUCATION Secretary Justine Greening heralds a bright new future for schools, with a 3 per cent increase in spending over two years. But secondary pupil numbers are set to rise by 19 per cent over the next eight years. WILLIAM HIRST, Cambridge. ACCORDING to the biased BBC, life expectancy is falling not because of the obesity epidemic warned about by the medical profession, but due to austerity. L. E. BROWNE, Salisbury, Wilts. POLDARK is as appetising as a cold Cornish pasty. It helps the ratings when the hero gets his kit off, but what the viewers really want is more flesh in the script. Mr & Mrs G. CAMPBELL, Bognor Regis, W. Sussex. IS IT a surprise that ‘ladies and gentlemen’ has been banned by TRANSPORT for London?

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