Straight to the POINT

TOP Gear: the hamsters are dead, but the wheels are still going round. ANTONY LANE, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos.

THOSE who think Jeremy Corbyn isn’t up to the job should look at the way he’s cleverly stood back and allowed Boris Johnson to do more damage to the Conservative party in six weeks than the Labour party has managed in 100 years. ADRIAN WAGENAAR, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

SO TOM Hanks is an expert on typewriters (Mail)? No wonder, he’s that rarity: the tall, dark, italic type. VINCENT HEFTER, Richmond, Surrey.

SIR John Major’s chosen coat of arms consists of cricket balls and a portcullis. Maybe he should change this to a white flag and no balls.

G. G. ELLIS, Ipswich.

WHY all the complaints that David Cameron is avoiding debating the EU referendum face-to-face? I saw the ITV debate and saw both his faces. MARTIN BURGESS, Beckenham, Kent.

PRESUMABLY, if the country votes to leave the EU, the deadline for voting will similarly be extended until the result is reversed. PETE BAILEY, Croydon, Surrey.

IF WE are less affluent after a successful Brexit, perhaps fewer people will want to come here! STEPHEN BIDDLE, Ely, Cambs.

the Armistice, which came a fortnight later.

Not all victories are obvious at the time, but in retrospect we can understand that Jutland was a success.

T. CROSS, Dereham, Norfolk.

AS A taxpayer, I am angry at what these idiots at the Ministry of Defence get up to at my expense (Mail). It’s simple that a warship has to operate anywhere in the world.

I don’t see cruise ships breaking down from being in the wrong kind of water. How is it that a cruise liner can operate anywhere and a warship can’t? Maybe cruise companies live in the real world.

Sadly, I doubt heads will roll at the MoD. TED SHEPHERD, address supplied.