Straight to the POINT
■ TEXT from our GP surgery: ‘All appointments suspended due to staff illness; pre-booked appointments may be cancelled. Only call in emergencies.’ Service as normal, then.
Gordon Morris, southwick, Wilts.
■ THE Foreign Office advises it is safe to go to Turkey but the Home Office feels it is unsafe to send failed asylum seekers there. Should I cancel my holiday and go to Rwanda instead?
John Vize, hellidon, northants.
■ RISHI SUNAK fasts for 36 hours each week. Is he aware that some people have to ‘fast’ all week, through no choice of their own?
CLIVE NORMAN, Midsomer norton, somerset.
■ REINSTATE the window tax. With high-rise office blocks, that would bring in millions.
DIXON J. DAGG, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan.
■ CAN Greta Thunberg demonstrate against climate change in China, please?
AUSTIN MORRIS, southport, Merseyside.
■ IT WOULD appear we are thinking of sending one of our aircraft carriers to the Red Sea. I hope our RAC breakdown cover is in place.
a. McGrath, Wallingford, oxon.
■ IT IS cruel to feed a canine carnivore a vegan diet (Mail). What next, Weetabix for lions?
C. D. FIELD, Middlesbrough.
■ SO WE might see the reintroduction of blue lights outside police stations. I would prefer stations that were still open.
MRS T. NEWMAN, Gloucester.
■ CAN those who confidently predict World War III also predict the outcome?
Colin Wood, dover, Kent.
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