Straight to the POINT

SHOULD our BBC licence money count as a Labour Party political donation?

C. BECK, Sale, Cheshire. ARE the Crossrail constructors providing substations for the South Kensington oligarchs as easy access to their basement leisure facilities?

PAM CAMMELL, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. I WOULD have thought true torture was having to choose between burning to death in, or jumping from, a skyscraper.

CHRIS NEWCOMBE, Newchurch, Kent. WITH ever increasing public transport fares and exorbitant car parking charges, where is the encouragement to use our town centres?

CHERRY GUEST, Chelmsford, Essex. NOW we know what’s going wrong with the NHS: it has management consultants (Mail). Get rid of them — problem sorted.

BARBARA BRIGGS, Quadring Eaudyke, Lincs. THE US Department of Agriculture is stocking up on machine guns, night sights and large capacity magazines for gloved operation. What is the British equivalent, Defra, stocking up with?

JOHN SWIFT, Huddersfield, W. Yorks. SO WHAT if climate change wrecks civilisation? We’ve had a good run at the expense of other species, some of which will thrive and take over.

ROD MATTHEWS, Melbourne, Australia. IN IRAN, wouldn’t it be better if men wore chastity belts, the key to which could be handed to their wives on marriage? Then women could walk round freely, not in those walking prison burkas.

JOHN BAXENDALE, Huddersfield, W. Yorks.