Straight to the POINT

WILL the new domestic abuse law whereby ‘coercive and controlling behaviour’ can result in five years imprisonment be administered in Sharia courts as well as national ones?

ALAN MEADOWS, Blackrod, Lancs.

RHODES harbour needn’t commission a 135m statue to replace its long-absent Colossus. It could install the Cecil Rhodes statue from Oriel College, Oxford: not as colossal but more controversial.

F. HARVEY, Bristol.

IF PEOPLE trying to enter Britain illegally via Calais are violent (Mail), why aren’t they arrested? Or do they all live in even-numbered tents?

RUSS BALL, Leicester.

WITH the arrest of a firearms officer, have we reached the point where police officers can fire only if they themselves have been shot?

STEPHEN LAST, Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk.

HOW surprising to learn that the main cause of divorce is irritating little habits (Mail). I thought it was Strictly Come Dancing.

CYRIL MORRIS, Warrington, Cheshire.

DAVID CAMERON U-turns so often these days, he seems to be spinning out of control. Does he need a well-qualified spin doctor?

B. HODGSON, Stamford, Lincs.

A GROUP of baboons (Letters) is a troop, a flange or a congress. A parliament is a group of owls. (Perhaps it’s all the late sittings?)

MARGARET ORCHISTON, Collingham, Notts.

WHEN I stopped watching Good Morning Britain, I thought it couldn’t get any worse — but I was wrong. Piers Morgan presents it now.

PHIL NORTH, Brigg, Lincs.