£7,000 trips to Qatar? What price silence?

£25 STAR LETTER

How can all those MPS who went on all-expenses trips to Qatar live with themselves? How do they justify their £7,000 visits to the country when all they are seeing is the official version, enjoying six-star hospitality and saying not a word when they return (Sunday Post last week).

Well done to Jim Murphy for going to the workers’ camps and seeing the truth for himself and then speaking about it. The World Cup should never have gone there in a million years and I would be saying that even if we had qualified. James Purves, by email

Perks of the job

There was a bit of disagreement on your Letters’ page recently about public service pensions compared to the private sector.

I don’t want to start any trouble but wanted to say good luck to the nurses, teachers, binmen and all the others going on strike demanding rises of 10% and more. I just wish I could.

I work in a supermarket – went to work every day during the pandemic too – but haven’t had a pay rise of more than 3% for 20 years. When I left school, I was told public service workers got good pensions to make up for relatively low salaries. It’s not my business but now they seem to be getting both. SB (name supplied), by email

Cheers, Gran

I enjoyed reading the interview with Tom Morton about how religions have used drink through the centuries (Sunday Post last week).

When I was a teenager, my granny came back from a trip to Devon saying she had been to Buckfast Abbey and had a present for me. I was panicking about pretending not to know what Buckfast wine was when she pulled out a souvenir leather wallet for golf tees, I didn’t know whether I was relieved or disappointed. My golfing buddies always said I played like I’d had a bottle anyway.

Near me, there was a Buckfast tree where empty bottles were tied to the branches of a popular spot for an al fresco cocktail.

Steven Ives, Airdrie

Now he’s My Wullie

I used to like the Broons but never really took to Oor Wullie when I was young but 40 years on, I’m loving him in The Sunday Post.

Sunday’s strip with the talking dummy and the ventriloquist was another belter although £200 for an old Guy that Wullie made in his shed seemed a stretch. Anyway, hats off to the team. Great talent.

Petra Jarvie, by email

Ant, Dec, genius

I used to watch I’m A Celebrity when the kids were small but haven’t seen it for a few years now. I tuned in to see Matt Hancock and had forgotten how good it was. Boy George looked like he was ready to go after a few days while I actually quite liked Chris Moyles.

But it’s still presenters Ant and Dec who make it so good. Their chat is so bad it’s brilliant and the way they are cramming in references to Culture Club songs then dancing about when the music came on cracked me up every time. Great fun.

Allyson James, Perth