Straight to the POINT

‘DO AS you wish, apologise, then just carry on, Prime Minister. It always works!’ ‘Thank you, Sir Humphrey.’

K. MORRIS, Cavendish, Suffolk.

‘I WANT to apologise,’ doesn’t really mean ‘I am sorry’. And ‘there were things that we simply did not get right’ is not the same as saying: ‘We got it wrong!’

S. ATTWATER, Swindon, Wilts.

I’M AFRAID I could lose my job, which comes with a flat where I live. A fortune has been spent, not sure by who, on renovating the property. Can anyone recommend a tradesman who can remove very expensive wallpaper to reuse elsewhere? MARTY MARTINDALE, Christchurch, Dorset.

I’M NOT going back to the office until I receive an invitation by email and can bring a bottle.

BILL SCOTT, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry.

THE economy must be going well and Covid finally under control as the Opposition can only argue about whether a party was held in May 2020. F. GUNN, Beaconsfield, Bucks.

PUT Boris and Andrew in a sauna and see who sweats . . . HELEN GRIFFITHS, Hook, Hants.