It’s rather disingenuous of Mike Coupe to expect from the government a “holistic approach to tackle childhood obesity, including compulsory measured targets” (Report, 19 August). As Sainsbury’s CEO he has the power to decide whether his shops sell food containing high levels of sugar. As a shareholder I urge him to take the lead. Supermarkets have effectively prevented GM food getting into our bodies by not stocking it. Why then not the same with sugary food?
Richard Cooper
Chichester, West Sussex
• How about going back to the National Loaf, which had a small percentage of wholemeal flour added to the white. They tell us we were much healthier then. How about calling it the “GB loaf” or the “Olympic loaf”? I’m sure any increase in cost would be negligible.
Eunice Mayes (aged 90)
Towcester, Northamptonshire
• I am not expecting the Guardian to become a latter-day Sunny Stories, but will you please stop moaning about Brexit (‘An unimaginably hard task’: experts say divorcing EU may take 10 years, 17 August, etc ad nauseam).
Kelvin Appleton
Beverley, East Yorkshire
• Can someone tell Larry Elliott (Brexit Armageddon was a terrifying vision – but it simply hasn’t happened, 20 August) that we haven’t left the EU yet?
Vaughan Dean
Ampthill, Bedfordshire
• So John Major has been “hailed as the driving force behind Britain’s extraordinary medal haul” (Pass Notes, 18 August). Does that make up for rail privatisation?
Ted Watson
Brighton
• Could the three feet recently discovered in Bath perhaps belong to Jake the Peg (Report, 18 August)? He hasn’t been seen in public for some time.
John Rees-Jones
Datchet, Berkshire
• All these comments about brief letters are just a load of pants.
Geoff Elms
llanfyrnach, Pembrokeshire
