Straight to the POINT

WHEN John Lewis is shedding thousands of jobs, why is it paying Sir Elton John £5 million to perform its Christmas TV ad? SIMON HOULTON, Tiverton, Devon. VICTORIA BECKHAM wears the best thing in her fashion label — the carrier bag (Mail). STEVE ROGERS, Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts. AT LEAST Victoria Beckham’s shopping bag looks as if it is smiling. CHRISTINE THOMPSON, Ripley, Derbys. IF YOU can afford his fee, Mr Loophole can help you bend it like Beckham. GEOFF ROBINSON, Highcliffe, Dorset. KIRSTIE ALLSOPP’S sons would have learned a vital lesson if she had simply put their iPads under lock and key for a month rather than smashing them against a table leg (Mail). M. J. BOUTELL, St Leonards-on-Sea, E. Sussex. WELL done, Alastair Cook, bowing out of international cricket with a score of 147. Now give him the knighthood he deserves. DAVID HARPER, Llandrindod Wells, Powys. IT’S ironic that Bristol, the home of the Woodbine, is predicted to be Britain’s first non-smoking city. STEPHEN TONG, Pudsey, W. Yorks. BORIS and Apples? At his age, Granny Smith would be a better match. VINCENT HEFTER, Richmond, Surrey. INSURANCE companies complain cars are too wide for rural roads (Mail). But don’t they have to accommodate today’s wider drivers?

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