Letters

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Nicola Sturgeon declined an invitation to appear before the Scottish Affairs Committee, but made a guest appearance on ITV's Loose Women on Monday.

Letters: It was typical of Sturgeon to seek to avoid the hard questions
THERE is something quite fitting, perhaps epitomising the outgoing First Minister’s entire time in office, in her refusing to appear before the Scottish Affairs Committee ("I am leaving a brilliant foundation... the SNP is not in a mess’", The Herald, March 21).

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signing his Parental Rights in Education Bill last year. It forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida schools in kindergarten through to third grade. Critics call it the

Letters: Ron DeSantis's war on woke ideology could become America's greatest export

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SNP President and interim chief executive Michael Russell told the BBC's Sunday Show that despite being the party president he had not been told that 30,000 people had quit in a few months, or why so many people had left the party.

Letters: Scotland will not forget the SNP admissions of abject failure

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Should Scotland's resilience planning pre-Covid be investigated?

LETTERS Letters: Our Covid inquiry should look at where things went wrong from the start

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Douglas Chapman resigned as SNP national treasurer when he was denied access to the full party accounts, yet the majority on the party's National Executive and other senior figures declined to act

Letters: Shame on those who practised 'wheesht for indy'

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Humza Yousaf is considered the 'establishment candidate' by his critics

Letters SNP beware – more of the same means continued deterioration

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How should we judge Nicola Sturgeon's record in government?

Letters: Sturgeon should be ashamed at the mess she's leaving behind

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Budget has been roundly decried by Scotland's whisky industry

Letters Budget proves that we have no way to defend our interests

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How do we tackle the problems of an overstretched NHS?

LETTERS The NHS is not a bottomless money pit. We must design a new system

How much does a standard GP consultation cost the NHS?

LETTERS Is it really so wrong to have private companies providing healthcare?

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How do Humza Yousaf and Kate Forbes stack up against their Westminster Government counterparts?

Letters Yousaf and Forbes are giants compared to the UK Tories

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Should we impose a curfew on cats to help protect other wildlife?

LETTERS It's time to follow Australia's lead and crack down on domestic cats

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Gary Lineker will be back on the BBC next week after refusing to back down over his criticism of the Government's immigration policy

Letters Let's all do a Lineker and stand up to the Establishment

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There is a shortage of home-based medical students graduating from our universities

LETTERS The dire shortage of GPs is down to the SNP's failure to plan properly

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A migrant carries a child with people-smugglers behind him as he hurries to board a boat on a beach near Dunkirk in an attempt to cross the Channel

Letters Let's focus on the real issue: the way we treat refugees

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Scottish schools ranked fourth in the most recent OECD survey of Global Competencies

Letters EIS has played a key role in advancing Scottish education

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Is the operation of Lothian Buses a template for the rest of the country?

Letters Reductions in bus and rail services will make a mockery of car usage target

Humza Yousaf is widely regarded as the SNP's continuity candidate

Letters Why on earth is the SNP top brass pushing for Yousaf?

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Kate Forbes has been widely praised for her candour in the SNP leadership hustings

Letters: Forbes is a breath of fresh air. It's a shame she chose the SNP

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Gary Lineker, pictured outside his London home yesterday, is embroiled in a row over his opposition to the Government’s Illegal Migration Bill

Letters Braverman wrong to try to hide behind the law in defence of xenophobic Bill

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Nelson Mandela made a joyous visit to Scotland in 1993 to receive the Freedom of Glasgow

Letters Scots have a proud record of speaking up for justice. We won't be silenced

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A group of migrants are brought in to Dover on board a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel earlier this week

LETTERS The best place to help migrants is back in the countries they come from

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Nicola Sturgeon kept Alex Salmond's independence momentum going, but could any of Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes or Ash Regan progress the cause?

Letters Does anyone really believe this lot could succeed where Sturgeon failed?

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Should Vladimir Putin be allowed to keep control of the territories his Russian troops have annexed?

LETTERS History shows that we must not allow Putin to keep his ill-gotten gains

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Boris Johnson is believed to have nominated his father Stanley for a knighthood in his resignation honours list

LETTERS Johnson & Co are turning our democracy into a pantomime

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A damaged bust of Vladimir Lenin lies in the street in the town of Lyman last week. Lyman is strategically important in the battle for the Donbas region.

Letters Donbas is not worth Armageddon – we must have peace negotiations

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Are Conservative anti-immigration policies, fronted by Suella Braverman (seen here with Jeremy Hunt, left, Rishi Sunak and Dominic Raab) holding back Scottish agriculture?

LETTERS Scotland needs to get a grip and stand up for itself

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Was the true extent of the value of North Sea oil and gas revenues deliberately kept from the Scottish people?

Letters It is clear that McCrone's report was suppressed by the UK

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Scotland's international matchers – such as this one against Ukraine last September – are not shown on terrestrial television, unlike those of England, which viewers here can see

Letters We need a Scottish Broadcasting Corporation

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The SNP leadership candidates: Kate Forbes, left, Ash Regan and Humza Yousaf

Letters: Why can't the SNP candidates focus on the truly pressing matters?

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Votes are counted at the independence referendum of 2014. Could that have been the Yes camp's last chance?

Letters: Why I'm having to give up on my dream of Scottish independence

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Does the Additional Member System lead to complacency among MSPs?

LETTERS There is a serious problem with the lack of accountability of our MSPs

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The three candidates for the SNP leadership pose for a picture at the party's hustings in Cumbernauld on Wednesday

Letters Could the next SNP leader please learn to listen?

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Betty Boothroyd, the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House of Commons, died this week, aged 93

Letters Betty Boothroyd's sense of fair play was unerring

What implications does Rishi Sunak’s new deal have on the prospects for the border between Scotland and England in the event of independence?

Letters So now we know: indy doesn't mean a hard border

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Boris Johnson published Friendly Fire in 20024 when he was editor of the Spectator

LETTERS Don't let self-appointed arbiters deny us our right to make up our own minds

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pictured in Lisburn, County Antrim yesterday, after striking a deal with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen

Letters Sunak has paved the way for a rout of the SNP

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Does the Curriculum for Excellence lack direction?

LETTERS We need a prescriptive curriculum that defines what must be taught and how

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Is the SNP's broad coalition in danger of fracturing?

Letters So how much longer can this tenuous SNP unity endure?

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The leadership contest following Nicola Sturgeon's speech announcing her resignation has become increasingly rancorous

LETTERS Post-Sturgeon SNP meltdown demands a new Scottish election

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Areas such as Ardnamurchan are heavily dependent on tourism. Could B&B licensing damage that?

Letters Licensing scheme for B&Bs will do real and lasting damage to the Highlands

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Nicola Sturgeon during her resignation speech

Letters: The next SNP leader must be someone who opposed Sturgeon

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Neil Gray, Humza Yousaf's campaign manager, this week said

Letters: SNP must leave religion alone and focus on the big issues

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Vladimir Putin lays flowers near the Kremlin Wall on Russia’s Defender of the Fatherland Day yesterday – the eve of the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine

Letters Determination to seek Russia's humiliating defeat could end in catastrophe

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Kate Forbes is resetting her leadership campaign after its controversial start

Letters Can Forbes defy the new totalitarians in our politics?

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Kate Forbes has endured a torrid start to her campaign to replace Nicola Sturgeon

Letters They're out to get Forbes because they fear her most

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Many Glasgow City Council offices are no longer open to the public

Letters Here's how Glasgow can balance the books: get staff back into offices

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The Old Testament was written by many individuals over many centuries

Letters Do not condemn the Old Testament because of its perceived brutality

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Several SNP politicians have withdrawn their support for Kate Forbes over her views on same-sex marriage

Letters Kate Forbes needs to stand aside

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There has been some opposition to Kate Forbes' candidacy for the post of First Minister because of her religious views

Letters A government that promotes goodness could boost indy case

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Is it time to rethink high-stakes exams?

Letters Shame on the SQA for fanning the flames of curriculum narrowing

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Teachers are this week targeting selected constituencies with strike action

Letters Shame on SNP and teachers for dragging us back to the 80s

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Plastics are an ever-increasing hazard in our seas

Letters Be grateful we have a government with vision

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Nicola Sturgeon during the press conference at Bute House where she announced her resignation

Letters: Sturgeon's successor must change the Government's priorities

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