Straight to the POINT

I CAN’T understand why people will take their children to beaches packed with strangers, but won’t send them to the controlled environment of a classroom.

Stuart Miller, Swanley, Kent.

DOMINIC Cummings, Catherine Calderwood AND Neil Ferguson? Background noise. Hundreds are dying daily. Focus, people, focus.

Martin redfern, edinburgh.

IF SIMON Cowell auditions for the scruffiest man on TV, it would be a ‘yes’ from me. antHOnY PerrY, Bristol.

YOU would have thought in this year of all years, 2020, we would have seen this coming.

COlin CrOSS, leigh-on-Sea, essex.

HOW to halve the £350 billion virus bill? Cancel the next ten years of foreign aid. terrY CaldOn, thanet, Kent.

BBC4 is to become a repeats channel — just like BBC1 and BBC2.

StePHen PerKinS, Grimsby, lincs.

WITH soaps restarting filming, can we expect to see Corona-Nation Street? daVid PearCe, Wilmslow, Cheshire.

I’D LIKE to deny rumours that Jennifer Arcuri’s dancing Pole was me.

MiKe PiCeWiCZ, Blackpool, lancs.

A MORE appropriate title for Meghan and Harry’s book would be Dodging Duty: Running From Responsibility. anGela fuller, llangollen, Clwyd.

THOSE who can, teach; those who can’t become teachers’ union leaders.

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