Straight to the POINT

WHAT’S the difference between having a drink hundreds of miles from your workplace with people you don’t know and having a drink in the office with colleagues? Answer: Durham Police v the Met.

Mrs S. WEBB, Stroud, Glos. DID the Just Stop Oil protesters cycle to service stations on the M25 to sabotage them? What hypocrites!

B. QUELCH, Bognor Regis, W. Sussex. MADONNA splits from her much younger lover. In other news, scientists find out the sun is very hot and water is wet.

MARK COHEN, Manchester. WHO will take Boris Becker’s place in the Wimbledon commentary box? My money’s on Susan Calman, Holly Willoughby, Joanna Lumley or Bradley Walsh, who between them are on every other TV programme.

RICHARD J. WARE, Gillingham, dorset. WHEN the hairdresser spends more time trimming your eyebrows than your hair . . .

CHRISTOPHER ELLIS, Colkirk, Norfolk. AFTER sorting out the civil service, can Jacob Rees-Mogg persuade GPs to go back to their surgeries?

LIBBY HARDING, Leeming, N. Yorks. I CHERISH my 40-year-old donkey jacket (Letters) on a cold day doing outdoor jobs. But I wouldn’t be seen in the street in it.

TONY THOMPSON, Banbury, Oxon. JUST to let you know, Gyles Brandreth has never met me.

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