Straight to the POINT

■ SOMEONE should explain to Lord Cameron that the £8million-plus a day we spend on asylum seekers is a form of foreign aid D. JOHNSON, Tayport, Fife. ■ ALL those on the dinghies pictured on last Friday’s front page (Mail) look like men. Are women not persecuted where they came from? P. A. BOULTON, Nottingham. ■ MAYBE obstructive peers of the realm could accommodate a few boat people each in their mansions. That would help. JUNE HIGHGATE, little Marlow, Bucks. ■ TWO years’ jail for the life of a pensioner. Stop the rot. BEVERLEY MITCHELL, rochdale, lancs. ■ CHINA has sent a new spy. He’s starting in the right place. CONRAD ELKINS, Bolton, lancs. ■ MILLI HILL (Mail) thinks a trans woman shouldn’t be in charge of an endometriosis charity. What happened to equal rights? CHRIS PATE, Worcester. ■ IN FRUIT-PACKING plants, do they employ someone whose job is to put one piece of rotten fruit in each bag? IAN HARRINGTON, Axminster, Devon. ■ MOST comments from MPs on Rishi Sunak’s shake-up referred to the effect on the party, not the effect on the country. JACK BUTTERWORTH, Oldham, lancs. ■ WITH more blended families than ever, where are the stepdaughter and stepson Christmas cards? For permission to copy cuttings for internal management and information purposes, please contact the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), PO Box 101, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1WX. Tel: 01892 525273. e-mail: copy@nla.co.uk