Straight to the POINT

COUPLES who drink together, grow together (Mail): my better half is now a pint.

Vincent Hefter, richmond, Surrey. IF LABOUR leader challenger Owen Smith worked as a BBC radio and television producer for ten years, won’t he be even more Left-wing than Jeremy Corbyn?

Phil nortH, Brigg, n. lincs. ONE of the many advantages of growing older is that no matter how many times I watch repeats of Midsomer Murders, Poirot or Miss Marple on television, I can never remember whodunit. Brilliant! AlAn JArrett, rochester, Kent. WHO is more honest, Jeremy Corbyn, who has not changed his beliefs, right or wrong, over many decades. Or the rest of the Labour Party, which chops and changes?

JoHn eVAnS, Wokingham, Berks. I REMEMBER Steptoe & Son as an amusing TV series. However, we never thought of it as a pilot for a Labour leadership contest 50 years later!

BriAn cHriStley, Abergele. conwy. I FIND it a bit rich that Lloyds bank is blaming Brexit for the job losses when it has already axed 9,000 jobs since 2014, long before Brexit, and indeed must have planned the current ones before the referendum vote.

Victor roSentHAl, chigwell, essex. THE £69million losses at The Guardian could be due to fewer pointless public sector job adverts thanks to government cuts. If so, what joy!

rex GArrAtt, Sandbach, cheshire. RUSSIAN President Vladamir Putin says medals at Rio 2016 will be devalued by the banning of Russian competitors. No, the Russians devalued them themselves before that.

tom murrAy, northwood, middlesex.