Straight to the POINT

÷ JAPAN vs Ireland was the best rugby game in a while, but the Irish backstop was useless. BARRY LAZENBURY, Yate, Glos.

÷ A HUMBUG bought with pocket money used to make me smile. Now the term sends Labour MPs into apoplexy. Gobstoppers all round? ALAN SHARPE, Melton Mowbray, Leics.

÷ THERE are daily stabbings, a drug epidemic, and homelessness. But what do politicians spend hours discussing? The word ‘Surrender’! PIERS MINALL, Leverington, Cambs.

÷ JOHN HUMPHRYS’S revelations explain why the review of papers hardly ever include the Mail, the UK’s most widely read newspaper. COLIN HATTON, Marton, Middlesbrough.

÷ IS IT time to rebrand the BBC as the BPC? MARK MADDEN, address supplied.

÷ LADY HALE said ‘advice to Her Majesty was unlawful’, so what was the actual law broken? BOB ELLIOTT, address supplied.

÷ WHEN I was 16 I knew everything, yet I wasn’t invited to speak to the United Nations. TREVOR BAILEY, Gedling, Notts.

÷ IF WE reach November 5 not having achieved Brexit, our Guy Fawkes bonfires should be topped with effigies of John Bercow. PETER MALLER, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon.

÷ WE HAVE a rule in our house: No Brexit or Boris at Breakfast. D. PARSONS, Chislehurst, Kent.

÷ THOSE of us who lived through real austerity in World War II know the suggestion that 130,000 lives have been lost through ‘austerity’ between 2012 and 2017 is claptrap. ALAN STACKMAN, Calne, Wilts.

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