Letters

Letters: SNP’s dream of nationalised rail has become a nightmare

IT appears that the SNP’s dream of a nationalised rail service has quickly turned into a nightmare, with services decimated and workers – the new owners of Scotrail – unable to get home from their jobs without significant costs, delays and inconveniences.

Letters: I marvelled at Spain’s civic pride and management. Why can’t UK match it?

Letters: The fear and despondency that disfigure a mature nation

Letters: Praise Sturgeon for her bold stance on the nuclear deterrent at Faslane

Letters: As monkeypox rises, we can avert the next global pandemic by treating animals better

Letters: The extortionate cost of today's Civil Service can be put down to the actions of Margaret Thatcher

Letters: UK is well within its rights to fight EU on Northern Ireland

Letters: Trident's fate must be sealed before Scotland tries to join Nato

Letters: There is a cast-iron case for imposing a windfall tax on profiteering oil companies

Letters: We must get out of this unequal Union with its contempt for democracy

Letters: It is high time we held parents to account over the issue of bad behaviour in our schools

Letters: Scotland has been sickened by voting Labour, getting Tory

Letters: Focusing on clamping down protests is shutting down the abortion debate we need

Letters: Minimum pricing only gives the alcohol industry unearned extra profits. We need better solutions

Letters: Culture of secrecy shows Holyrood is not fit for purpose

Letters: Independence would do huge damage to the poor. That's why Labour opposes it

Letters: Have wind farm developers no souls?

Letters: Let's have a radical rethink of how we charge for domestic gas and electricity

Letters: Labour must think hard about where it has all gone wrong

Letters: End this myth that the Scots think differently from the English

Letters: There is no evidence to suggest that CMAL could easily have switched to another bidder

Letters: The problems of Police Scotland go back to the very beginning and its first leaders

Letters: Labour has to get real and join the fight for indy

Letters: Council results show Yes will lose, so let's have indyref now

Letters: The Scottish Government failed to learn the lessons of history in trying to save shipbuilding

Letters: This is a time for cool heads in Ukraine. We cannot afford a proxy war

Letters: It is time Holyrood got involved in the abortion debate

Letters: US-style changes to UK abortion law would have a disastrous effect on women's health

Letters: West must be ready to deal with a post-Putin Russia

Letters: Ukraine must be persuaded to give ground to end the slaughter

Letters: The over-reliance on the internet is leading to a lack of resilience in the banking system

Letters: Why should a tiny minority be allowed to take privacy and dignity and away from women?

Letters: It is a gross insult to liken Boris Johnson to Churchill

Letters: We all lose if we let the SNP continue to run councils into the ground

Letters: Stop using the NHS as a political football and face up to the fact it is under real threat

Letters: It is not true that Scotland was as badly hit as Ireland by the Great Famine

Letters: The desire for separation is crippling our legal system

Letters: Put away the woad and the Saltires and the 'struggle' for independence while Ukraine is being razed to the ground

Letters: Handing power to Gove was a dark day for democracy

Letters: Be thankful for all the dull but honest council candidates

Letters: Proposal for a two-year MOT will lead to increased danger on our roads and must be resisted

Letters: If Sarwar wants Labour to win, he must back Indyref2

Letters: It is an indictment of our education that the Scottish famine is overshadowed by Ireland's

Letters: May 5 lets us tell Westminster what we think of their mess

Letters: Glasgow must tackle the problem of semi-feral youths and public drunkenness

Letters: Don't let the SNP hijack local elections for Indyref2 mandate

Letters: The 2004 contracts for GPs have surely had serious consequences for A&E departments

Letters: There are encouraging signs, but Glasgow needs to work harder to sell the city as an attractive destination

Letters: Scotland deserves so much better than this

Letters: Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon both need to be shown the door

Letters: There must now be a full public inquiry into ferries fiasco

Letters: Nicola Sturgeon was the best thing to happen to the Scottish health service

Letters: A rail strike in Scotland would have drastic long-term consequences

Letters: Speeding is a major cause of death and despair and should not be treated as a trivial offence