Straight to the POINT

ANY five-year-old boy who wears a tiara and high heels to school (Mail) is not only likely to be bullied, but will have very bad feet by the age of six.

FRANK FAULKNER, Upper Beeding, W. Sussex.

LORD Kerr says we can reverse the Brexit vote (Mail). Would he also claim that a General Election result could be reversed if the outcome was not to his taste?

C. HUMPHREYS, Bristol.

IT IS not whether Article 50 can be reversed, it is that the referendum can’t be.

B. DAVIS, Lincoln.

I AM surprised that the late arrival of Bewick’s swans from Russia is said to indicate a mild winter (Mail). Do these birds have access to the Met Office long-range forecast?

DAVID WALDRAM, Nottingham.

AUTHOR Zadie Smith has called the Queen lower-middle-class (Mail). Well, I call Her Majesty unpretentious.

DAVID SCRUTTON, Upminster, Essex.

THERE should be a Children In Need collection box in every TV and radio station so every time someone says ‘You know’, they have to make a £1 donation. I heard a reporter use this phrase 26 times in ten minutes.

P. HOLLOWELL, Wallington, Surrey.

I HAVE bought one square foot of land in Scotland on the internet, which apparently makes me a laird. I hope to claim my £300 a day from the House of Lords, to be paid via an offshore trust.

MICHAEL BARNBROOK, ‘Lord of Glencoe’, Ramsgate, Kent. FOR permission to copy cuttings for internal management and information purposes, please contact the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), PO Box 101, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1WX. Tel: 01892 525273. e-mail: copy@nla.co.uk