Straight to the POINT

HAS anyone told Jeremy Corbyn that the Russians are now nationalists and capitalists, not communists?

PAUL RUANE, leeds.

IF DOOM-MONGERS are right and Russia may cut off our gas supply, why aren’t we fracking?

GRAHAM LUDLAM, South Wingfield, derbys.

IF ONLY Mrs May was as tough with Brexit negotiations as she’s been with the Russians.

DUNCAN CROCKER, Hampton, middlesex.

A BOYCOTT of the World Cup by all leading European football nations would see half-empty stadiums, reduced fixtures, fewer tourists and a hit to the Russian economy.

Name supplied, Smethwick, W. Mids.

BBC show Shakespeare & Hathaway — Private Investigators is a refreshing antidote to violent and angst-ridden police dramas with increasingly ludicrous storylines.

JANET TAYLOR, Halesowen, W. Mids.

MY LINGUISTIC bugbear (Mail) is ‘for me’, as in the ridiculous: ‘Sign this for me.’

FRAN CAMBETTIE-DAVIES, Carshalton, Surrey.

‘VERY’ is being replaced by ‘really’. Can we persuade TV presenters to use ‘really’ only when it means ‘in reality’, not ‘extremely’?

JOHN NATION, Lakenheath, Suffolk.

DID jockey Davy Russell have to book priority boarding to win the Ryanair Chase?

M. SHELDON, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcs.

CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond was wrong all the time he was Eeyore. Let’s hope he is still not going to be wrong now he is Tigger.

SANDRA PARSONS, Keston, Kent.

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