Straight to the POINT

÷ ACTOR Tom Hardy is the only man who could make sprouts sexy. I’m converted.

MAUREEN GOODMAN, Harlow, Essex. ÷ IS IT really worth the risk for a few days of stuffing and TV repeats?

JOHN EVANS, Wokingham, Berks. ÷ IF Tony Blair is right and we can achieve 95 per cent [protection] with one dose of Pfizer’s vaccine, why was this not always the plan?

A JAck, Fife. ÷ TONGUE-TWISTER for our times: ‘A very virulent variant of the virus.’

SARA WytcHARD, Dursley, Glos. ÷ HARRY and Meghan should be renamed the Duke and Duchess of Success (Letters)? I’d suggest the Duke and Duchess of Excess.

ERIc cRAGGS, Shildon, co. Durham. ÷ THE Brexit stand-off is not about fishing or level playing fields, but Macron looking strong for the next French elections.

ROBIN cROSS, Maidstone, kent. ÷ IS FISH no longer regarded as food or is it just a pawn in Brexit negotiations ?

ANDy MORRIS, Brixham, Devon. ÷ OF COURSE Bill Bailey won Strictly. A smiling man with a white beard who gave us joy in the simple pleasures of life at a dark time. Ring any (sleigh) bells?

VAL cROISSANt, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincs. ÷ HOW was O Holy Night voted Britain’s favourite carol by Songs Of Praise? It’s so difficult to sing it’s more like an operatic aria.

VAL ANDERSON, Liverpool.

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