Straight to the POINT

DESPITE our aircraft carriers and nuclear subs, all Russia has to do is turn off the gas.

MIKE FRY, Poole, Dorset. BORIS JOHNSON wants Britain to have a highwage, high-skills economy. Unfortunately, his ministers earn top salaries, but are inept.

GRAHAM DAY, Stowmarket, Suffolk. NO FOOD shortages at Waitrose, where there are adequate stocks of kiwi fruit, papaya and kumquats.

RAY H. DOVER, Ingatestone, Essex. SO GLAD my TV licence is helping the BBC pay £500,000 to a whistleblower. The Martin Bashir farce shows the collapse of standards.

M. BUSBY, Birchington, Kent. ROY KEANE has found his razor and no longer looks as if he is auditioning to be Santa in a Christmas grotto.

JOHN RUSBY, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham. WHAT a shameful waste that potatoes not meeting the required size for supermarkets are used for animal feed or left to rot in the ground.

M. PATIENT-SAUNDERS, Maldon, Essex. I ASKED a cleaning website where to buy a donkey stone — the traditional scourer used to clean doorsteps. My request was refused due to concerns about animal cruelty! Just as well I didn’t ask about a carpet beater . . .

JACKIE BOARDMAN, Blackburn, Lancs. IF GEORGE FOREMAN or Sonny Liston had floored Tyson Fury, he wouldn’t have got up.

MIKE BAILEY, London N2.