Straight to the POINT

LET’S give the Koh-i-Noor to Pakistan in lieu of overseas aid. A jeweller could make us a glass copy so the crown would look just as beautiful — and who would know? (Maybe it’s already happened!)

WENDY KINDER, Brookwood, Surrey.

IS IT too soon to start boiling my Brussels sprouts for Christmas Day?

DAVID LEWIS, Cardiff.

ARE those elusive ‘70,000 moderate Syrian fighters’ the same people the UK had the audacity to recognise as the ‘sole legitimate representatives’ of the Syrian people back in 2012?

BARRY M. WATSON, Fishlake, S. Yorks.

DAVID CAMERON got his Christmas wish for his very own realistic Air War Play Station. Sadly, it has no warranty and when it goes wrong (as this model always does) he can’t exchange it.

BARRY COPE, Brockworth, Glos.

IF THE oil fields in eastern Syria are of such strategic importance they had to be destroyed within hours of the vote, why didn’t U.S. F16s oblige months ago?

MIKE RAWSON, Cheshunt, Herts.

RESPECTED meteorologist Piers Corbyn (Jeremy’s brother) stated on TV with Andrew Neil that the ‘climate change’ agenda is a total fraud, which needs an open debate on statistics of actual weather events, not fiddled models.

DAVID FUTERS, Grimoldby, Lincs.

WHEN I was at school (70 years ago), the answer to ‘D’you know what?’ (Letters) was ‘Yes, he invented the steam engine.’

HARRY CARPENTER, address supplied.

WITH the New Year Honours approaching, there’s a chance Ronnie Corbett could be made a ‘sir’. But isn’t this the wrong time for the shortest (k)night of the year?

PETER GODFREY, Sompting, W. Sussex.