Straight to the POINT

WHY does the Chancellor bother to make a Budget speech? The leaks start a good week before the event.

Mike Martin, Christchurch, Dorset. WHO needs a heat pump when we have Boris Johnson spouting hot air?

DAVID KIRKWOOD, aspatria, Cumbria. WILL the refurbishment of the Houses of Parliament include heat pumps?

Brian Best, High Wycombe, Bucks. THOUSANDS of protesters, a bin strike, rail strike and Covid. What could possibly go wrong for Glasgow during the COP26 jamboree?

Brian Morris, Wellesbourne, Warks. IS THERE any topic on which Tony Blair is not sufficiently well versed to give us the benefit of his views?

GERALD RUDGE, Monte Carlo, Monaco. I AGREE with Richard Littlejohn that we are facing a disastrous democratic deficit (Mail). At the next election, many could well feel that no party represents their views and concerns.

D. SMITH, Sheffield. HOW to drum up the insurance business at John Lewis: let the children wreck the house.

Anna Brooks, tarporley, Cheshire. WHAT’S happening to Coronation Street? It’s like a spoof gangster film.

S. M. Long, Leeds. CONGRATULATIONS to J. K. Rowling on her No. 1 spot. The wokerati haven’t managed to cancel her book sales.

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