Straight to the POINT

I’M amazed Alice Smellie is complaining about ‘stores who make you buy a new bra each season’ (Mail). How long does she expect a bra to last? I would expect them to last no more than nine to 12 months if hand-washed.

Gwyneth tooke, Lytham, Lancs.

WHEN Moses received the tablets on Mount Sinai, he can’t have imagined how popular they would be today. DAVID kAye, haywards heath, Sussex.

POLITICAL correctness certainly contributes to the threat to traditional festive celebrations (Mail), but a much bigger threat is the everincreasing commercialisation of our major religious festivals, none more so than Christmas.

DAVID kAye, haywards heath, Sussex. MUSIC being the food of love, I’m surprised Pippa Middleton didn’t include Meat Loaf in her foolproof recipes for romance (Mail). VInCent heFteR, Richmond, Surrey. AS WELL as prosecuting drivers who fail to allow 1.5m space when overtaking a cyclist, I assume the police will also prosecute cyclists who ride two and three abreast, obstructing the highway. R. RowLey, Shifnal, Shropshire. I’M GLAD Bake Off is going to C4. Think of all those lovely adverts for cookware. Come on, Mary, turn that pan to show the label! D. wARneR, Fleckney, Leics. TO SAVE the uncertainty over HS2 (Mail), could we have a referendum on it before any more money is spent? tony wRAGG, Skelmanthorpe, w. yorks. FURTHER to school uniforms (Mail) back in the Fifties, walking around Brixton with our Loughborough Central School blazers bearing the motto ‘Fight’ was an open invitation for trouble. B. MItCheLL, worthing, w. Sussex