Straight to the POINT

■ WHY is Boris paying a fitness instructor £165 an hour (Mail)? All he has to do is run around the park a few times and stop eating all those things he tells everyone else not to scoff.

DAVID MOREY, Margate, Kent.

■ IS BORIS Johnson a prime minister designed by a mutant algorithm?

TERRY FITZGERALD, Cheltenham, Glos.

■ THE departure of senior education leaders was dubbed ‘the night of the long protractors’. What did they hope to achieve with semi-circular angle measuring devices?

HELEN FOX, Cambridge.

■ MY OVER-75 TV licence is costing two votes for the Tories at the next General Election.

WALTER BRECKIN, Wakefield, W. Yorks.

■ WHY are councils paying Uber and Deliveroo to collect data on potholes (Mail)? Just ask the dustmen.

SAM HILDER, Bourne, Lincs.

■ TONY BLAIR visited a care home and asked an old lady: ‘Do you know who I am?’ (Letters). She replied: ‘No, dear, but I expect the nurse will tell you.’

NIGEL FORTNAM, Lyme Regis, Dorset.

■ WHY do two bananas that have travelled from Ecuador cost 24p when two Granny Smith apples grown ten miles away cost 84p?

ROSEMARY KINGSNORTH, Tewkesbury, Glos.

■ THINGS are getting back to normal. Last week, I had visits from salesmen soliciting for subscriptions to a charity and trying to persuade me to switch energy supplier.

T. PHILLIPS, London E10.

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