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LETTER OF THE DAY 📨

COP28: Why profit before planet is a fudge
Letter of the day argues we must focus on saving the planet before making profit at COP28.

Torness nuclear power station in East Lothian

Letter of the Day 📨 Virtue signalling won't keep the lights on

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Lady Dorrian, the Lord Justice Clerk, gives evidence to the Scottish Parliament's equalities, human rights and civil justice committee

Letters: Opposition to democratising our legal landscape is all too predictable

It has been reported that some SNP MSPs are unhappy about Patrick Harvie

Letters: More power to those who are out to stop Patrick Harvie

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Henry Kissinger during a White House briefing on Vietnam in October, 1972

Letters: Shame on those who eulogise the war criminal Kissinger

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Former First Minister Alex Salmond

Letters: Salmond would have stood up to Ineos. The SNP was asleep at the wheel again

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Nicola Sturgeon

Letter of the Day 📨 I will never forget Nicola Sturgeon's care and humanity in the midst of Covid crisis

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Is Ayr Hospital a failing hospital with no future?

Letters: We need to face facts: Ayrshire cannot support two acute general hospitals

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How can we help today's stressed teachers?

Letters: Save our schools by going back to the old standards

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Letter of the Day 📨 There's no need for SNP despair because Labour will fail

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Are CalMac ferries grossly over-manned?

Letters: Our ferries could easily operate with fewer staff and save us £20m a year

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The pledge to dual the A9 is still years from being years from being fulfilled, if it all

Letters: When will people realise that SNP talk is meaningless?

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Forget Curriculum for Excellence, children must learn: no pain, no gain - letters

Letter of the Day 📨 Forget Curriculum for Excellence, children must learn: no pain, no gain - letters

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Uniquely in the UK, Scotland's NHS has avoided strikes

Letters SNP has a record to be proud of. With indy it could do even better

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Clueless SNP must stop blaming Westminster for infrastructure woes

Letter of the Day 📨 Clueless SNP must stop blaming Westminster for infrastructure woes

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Should the Glen Sannox and her sister ship the Glen Rosa be transferred to the Hebrides?

Letters We could fix many problems by sending Ferguson white elephants to Hebrides

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Alex Salmond has launched a civil action against the Scottish Government

Letters Salmond is thinking only of himself. That is sad for Scotland

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Could the six-week school holiday become a thing of the past?

Letters: We should do away with long school summer holidays and go for short breaks

Should Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone be asked to come up with a new procedure for referring ministers to an independent adviser?

Letters: Codes of conduct must no longer be left up to the FM

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Westminster must share ferries blame

LETTER OF THE DAY 📨 Westminster must share ferries blame

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We are all responsible for harmful emissions

Letters: We all have to take responsibility for climate change

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Has the UK's laissez-faire attitude to oil led us to the situation where the nation's only refinery is under threat?

Letters: Grangemouth is the price of 50 years of UK neglect

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Patrick Harvie, Humza Yousaf and Lorna Slater

Letters Does this Scottish Government actually have a plan for anything?

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Michael Matheson

LETTER OF THE DAY 📨 Matheson: something has to give

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Would assisted dying legislation be the start of a slippery slope? (Picture posed by models)

Letters Assisted dying must be resisted. We need more respect for the lives we have

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SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn makes a point in the Commons, but is the party ever listened to?

Letters SNP should do a Sinn Féin and boycott Westminster

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A bona fide complaint

LETTER OF THE DAY 📨 A bona fide complaint

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Scottish Secretary Alister Jack telling the House of Commons last January that he had issued a Section 35 order blocking the Scottish Parliament's Gender Recognition Reform Bill

Letters It is politics, not the subject matter, that is holding back gender reform

A Caledonian MacBrayne ferry leaving Rothesay

Letters Stop blaming CalMac, it's doing its best. The Government is the real villain

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SNP Health Secretary Michael Matheson

LETTER OF THE DAY 📨 It's time to let this Michael Matheson thing go. He was a decent man

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LibDem MSP Liam McArthur has brought forward a Holyrood bill on the issue of assisted dying

Letters It's time our MSPs told us what they think about the Assisted Dying Bill

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Do we need an inquiry into the whole system of governance at Holyrood?

Letters It's not just Matheson. We need to look at the whole system

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Please, give someone else a chance with the ferries

LETTER OF THE DAY 📨 Please, give someone else a chance with the ferries

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More and more children and young people are vaping

Letters We must ban single-use vapes now to keep our children safe from addiction

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Culture Secretary Angus Robertson at the launch of the Scottish Government's paper on an independent Scotland in the EU at Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, on Friday

Letters: Would anyone bet on the latest SNP fairy tale coming true?

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Letter of the Day 📨 Humza Yousaf should be focusing on Scotland, not Gaza conflict - letter of the day

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Is Douglas Ross being consistent in his attitude to parliamentary standards?

Letters: So how come Douglas Ross has suddenly found his voice?

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David Cameron and Alex Salmond

LETTER OF THE DAY 📨 Politicians should have the integrity of David Cameron and Alex Salmond

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Humza Yousaf and Michael Matheson pictured in the Holyrood chamber yesterday

Letters: The facts are out, and Yousaf and Matheson must both go

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Would the Named Person proposal have strengthened child protection in this country? (Picture posed by model)

Letters: Would those who opposed Named Persons plan now admit they were wrong?

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David Cameron on his first day as Foreign Secretary

Letters: Cameron will be prove to be a menace to our security as Foreign Secretary

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Suella Braverman at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London

LETTER OF THE DAY 📨 Suella Braverman forgot what people were fighting for in WW2

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Every teaching post in non-denominational schools is open to all, which is not the case in Catholic institutions

Letters: Why do we still allow the Catholic Church to get away with discrimination?

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Minister without Portfolio Esther McVey arriving in Downing Street, London, for the first meeting of the new-look Cabinet on Tuesday

Letters: So now we know for sure: Tories still believe in austerity

Could having someone like David Cameron, who campaigned against Brexit, in the Foreign Office, help the case for an associate agreement with the EU?

Letters At last there is now hope of a reset with the EU

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The 2025 target for dualling the A9 is now recognised as unachievable

Letters So you think the Highlands is no longer a problem area? Think again

Michael Matheson

LETTER OF THE DAY 📨 Why the double standards over Matheson?

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Rishi Sunak yesterday surprised the nation with his appointment of David Cameron as Foreign Secretary

Letters: Sunak has pulled off a masterstroke. The election is not yet lost

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Should the state continue to fund Catholic schools?

Letters: This is the 21st century. There's no justification now for Catholic schools

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A chance to plant new ideas

LETTER OF THE DAY 📨 A chance to plant new ideas

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When Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss flew by private jet to Australia at a cost of more than half a million pounds to the taxpayer

Letters: Matheson did the right thing. Now, how about the Tories?

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Michael Matheson

Letter of the day 📨 Michael Matheson's iPad bill just doesn't add up - Letter of the Day

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Police and pickets clash in Lochgelly during the 1984 miners strike

Letters: Keep an eye on Braverman and beware the slippery slope to a police state

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Glasgow City Council has paused its plan to introduce an entry fee at the Kibble Palace

Letters: Squeeze the private ventures, not the public, for Kibble Palace funding