Straight to the POINT

not ‘DAVE’be ableis worriedto get on that the his housing children ladder might (Mail). What’s foreign he aid? going to squander all his money on —

TONY THOMPSON, Banbury, Oxon.

LAST week, India successfully test-fired a new long-range surface-to-air missile capable of countering aerial threats at extended range. If they can afford this, why are we still sending them aid?

D. HANNA, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim.

IT’S high time important decisions about our flood defences were made by engineers, not pulse-eating flautists.

JAMES MOORE, Market Drayton, Shropshire.

ONE question missing from the New Year Quiz (Mail) was: which was wetter, Cameron or Cumbria?

COLIN BROWN, Tadworth, Surrey.

WITH Rafa Benitez sacked from Real Madrid, will Gareth Bale out?

GEORGE VALENTINE, Rotherham, South Yorks.

IT’S a surprise not to see the person responsible for naming the storms that have caused such havoc in the UK on the New Year honours list.

DIGBY C. HODGSON, Lyth, Cumbria.

HAS the TV series Endeavour turned into a competition as to who can smoke the most cigarettes in any one episode? Most of the actors cannot deliver their lines without lighting up first.

DAVID KAYE, Haywards Heath, W. Sussex.

‘CAMERON pledges . . .’ are these the two emptiest words in the English language?

COLIN DRURY, Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan.

THE honours system should be renamed the honours cistern . . . and flushed away for good.

GRAHAM ANDREWS, Bideford, Devon.