Where James Bond meets Mr Bean

The Tory image-makers’ efforts to enhance George Osborne seem to be backfiring, suggests John Arthurs. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

The claim that Lord Adonis is “now Tory” (Letters, 8 October) is untrue. He remains a member of the Labour party but, following convention, will sit on the cross benches in the Lords in the light of his appointment to chair the infrastructure commission. Creation of the latter was a Labour policy now adopted, without acknowledgement, by the Tories.
Jeremy Beecham
Labour, House of Lords

• It may be my imagination, but the Tory image-makers’ efforts to give George Osborne a James Bond image seem to result in a character increasingly resembling Mr Bean. Is this a visual metaphor for his policy development or just a coincidence?
John Arthurs
Newcastle upon Tyne

• 7 October: bank of oxeye daisies in Bridgend. Early or late?
Siân Saunders
Bridgend