WITHIN and around Alister Jack’s beautiful, "remote and sparsely populated” parliamentary constituency, there are several appalling examples of the consequences when arrogance, aggression, deliberate ignorance and outright folly are combined with the lethal hazards of nuclear radiation.
Several correspondents recently have tried to suggest that because the wind did not blow on one or two days means that renewable energy is not viable. This is not true
Someone is going to have to make the decision which the SNP has been avoiding for the entire duration of its 17 years' tenure in Holyrood, and it involves a lot more than just the future of Fergusons. It involves the unworkable tripartite of CalMac, CMAL, and Transport Scotland, and the Scottish Cabinet and the amalgamation of some or all of the failed tripartite structure.
SO, it takes the recently jilted Greens to vote for the same Labour motion that they recently voted against when still in bed with SNP to shame the SNP into declaring a Housing Emergency.
YOU report (‘Call for scrutiny over baby deaths’, May 14) that the level of neonatal deaths in Scotland rose to 135 in 2021-22, an increase of 30 deaths. Each one of these is an individual and family tragedy.
Letters from our readers.
YOU report (‘Nearly half of Scots want hate crime law scrapped as complaints hit 10,000 in a month’, May 15) that almost half of people in an opinion poll by Savanta “want hate crime law scrapped”.
TWO very remarkable phenomena have emerged in our secondary schools during the past 20 years, both widely canvassed in your columns.
RISHI Sunak labels as “extremists” Scots who want to end the disastrous union with England ("SNP fury as PM lists Yes supporters among 'extremists'", heraldscotland, May 13).
Today, a veteran activist pens a response to Mark Smith's column.
