Straight to the POINT

WHY the fuss about printing money? It hasn’t done Robert Mugabe any harm.

ROGER LANCASTER, Bristol.

THE late Frank Tyson’s bowling run-up was so long on the 1954-55 Ashes tour (Mail) that an Aussie spectator shouted: ‘Why don’t you hire a taxi?!’

C. D. ALLAN, Stoke-on-Trent.

I WISH our Government would stop interfering in other countries affairs. All it achieves is an increase to our benefits bill.

CALVIN GOODALL, Portsmouth, Hants.

INSTEAD of sending our soldiers to fight in Somalia (Mail), why doesn’t David Cameron send back the Somalian economic migrants living in the UK to fight for their country.

Mrs J. CRICKMORE, Marks Tey, Essex.

WHILE people are keen on imposing sanctions, I’d like to see sanctions imposed on President Obama and the U.S. for maintaining what is basically a torture camp at Guantanamo Bay.

C. NEWTON, Hemel Hempstead, Herts.

IT’S funny how chief constables want to reduce the number of constables (Mail), but don’t seem to want to cut their overloaded senior ranks.

PAUL MORLEY, Skipton, North Yorks.

AM I alone in despairing for Strictly? I now have to record it, then play it back, fastforwarding through the shouting, screaming, cheering and clapping.

LINDA BEDDOWS, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancs.

HAVE those whingeing about George Clooney restoring his mansion (Mail) taken account of the fact that he is boosting the economy, giving work to many people, from architects to bricklayers?

DANIELLE DIEPPOIS, Saint Julien, France.

A RACING certainty: the Cotswolds wallaby (Mail) will outlast any number of X Factor wannabes.

GRAHAM CARPENTER, Leominster, Herefordshire.