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Kate Forbes' no-nonsense comments on education were refreshing
Reader Jill Stephenson was impressed.
Reader Jill Stephenson was impressed.
I NOTE with interest your leader on Saturday ("Women and girls deserve more support in online ‘Wild West’", The Herald, September 30).
I was so impressed by the sound common sense and economic awareness and maturity of the statements of Kate Forbes, particularly those concerning the education attainment gap and the continuing extraction of fossil fuels, that my immediate thought was that, if I were one of her constituents I might be persuaded to cast my vote in her direction.
I HAVE sometimes wondered whether being a student should be a protected characteristic, a belief intensified by Rosemary Goring's article ("Universities should teach students how to behave for sake of neighbours", The Herald, September 28)
PROMINENT figures in the SNP, such as long-standing MSP Fergus Ewing, now suspended, and MPs Joanna Cherry and Lisa Cameron, who have both been the subject of sustained campaigns against them by their own colleagues as a result of speaking their minds, are now feeling similar emotions to the majority of Scots
KATHLEEN Nutt ("Arrests, rows, issues in government, so why does SNP still top polls?", September 24) asks some pertinent questions, but the answers may not be difficult to find.
LIKE most people I would love to see Vladimir Putin in the dock in The Hague for the crimes he has perpetrated in Ukraine and elsewhere. Perhaps a neighbouring cell should be reserved for Rishi Sunak.
I NOTE with interest Rosemary Goring's article ("Universities should teach students how to behave for sake of neighbours", The Herald, September 28).
THE leaders of my party, the SNP, are prone to boast that under their guidance Scotland is a world leader, especially on matters related to climate. The only thing they qualify for in terms of world leadership is economic self-harm not far from idiocy.
I WAS horrified by the portrayal of mental illness and inpatient psychiatric care in the performance of Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet I witnessed at the King's Theatre, Glasgow last night (September 26).
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