Straight to the POINT

ANYONE else old enough to remember when ‘having a conversation about’ X, Y or Z wasn’t a euphemism for lecturing everyone else on what to say, do and think, or else? Mark Boyle, Johnstone, renfrewshire. DID the Just Stop Oil protesters cycle to service stations on the M25 to sabotage them? B. QUelCH, Bognor regis, W. Sussex.

MADONNA splits from her much younger lover. In other news, scientists find out the sun is very hot and water is wet. Mark CoHeN, Manchester.

WHO will take Boris Becker’s place in the Wimbledon commentary box? My money’s on Susan Calman, Holly Willoughby, Joanna Lumley or Bradley Walsh, who between them are on every other TV programme.

riCHard J. Ware, Gillingham, dorset.

MINIMUM pricing in Scotland has amounted to £76million added to the cost of drinks. Yet there is no conclusive evidence that it has been in any way effective in reducing consumption. deNNiS ForBeS GrattaN, Bucksburn, aberdeen.

WHEN the hairdresser spends more time trimming your eyebrows than your hair . . .

CHriStoPHer elliS, Colkirk, Norfolk.

AFTER sorting out the civil service, can Jacob Rees-Mogg persuade GPs to go back? liBBy HardiNG, leeming, N. yorks.

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