Straight to the POINT

BREXIT is like a couple telling all their friends that they will divorce but carry on living in the same house for the foreseeable future. D. H. SPECKNER, Dudley, West Midlands.

TALKING of child geniuses (Meet The Smarties), I, too, should be on the list. My parents couldn’t believe it when I started reading Plato at 12. Mind you, I’d put it down by quarter-past. VINCENT HEFTER, Richmond, Surrey.

I COULDN’T agree more about too much Pippamania. Can we go a week without seeing a picture of Victoria Beckham’s miserable face, too? JEFF KAY, Hardwicke, Glos.

HOW come Cameron left out of his honours list the most useful one at No 10 — the mouser cat? JOHN EVANS, Wokingham, Berks.

SPOILER alert! The next J. K. Rowling book will be Harry Potter And The Flogged Dead Horse. MARK BOYLE, Johnstone, Renfrewshire.

YOUR correspondent (Letters) asks how they could count all 112 million ants in a Spanish super-ant colony. To avoid errors, you should count the legs and divide by six. RICHARD GALLAGHER, Guiseley, Leeds.

AFTER the joint memorial services following the attack in the French church, I look forward to churches being allowed in Muslim states. PETER FIELDMAN, Paris, France.

IF THERE is an acute shortage of maths teachers in parts of the UK (Mail), why not recruit from the pool of retired engineers and scientists, many of whom might like to work part-time? These people could bring life experience to maths teaching.

Dr RON BARNES, King’s Lynn, Norfolk.

IT IS a triumph that the use of plastic carrier bags has been cut so drastically. But how many more kitchen pedal bin liners have been bought? LOUISE MARKUS, address supplied.