Straight to the POINT

THE new U.S. embassy in London looks like an upmarket cheese grater waiting to be washed up. S. M. WINSLADE-RAFTER, Sheffield. I HOPE we got a full 12-month warranty on the leaking Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier. BILL DAVIS, Biggin Hill, Kent. DOMINIC GRIEVE compared himself to Churchill — did he mean the insurance advert dog? COLIN BROWN, Tadworth, Surrey. MY KITCHEN is full of vintage equipment (Letters) — like me! R. ALLEN, Lincoln.

LET’S bring the England cricket team home, have a meaningful vote and send them back to Australia to renegotiate a successful outcome. PETER LAWSON-SMITH, Faringdon, Oxon. IN OCTOBER, I made a Freedom of Information request about benefits appeal targets and was told there were none. Now the Work and Pensions Committee has confirmed that there were targets and reforms are to be made. GARY MARTIN, London E17.