Letters

Former first minister Humza Yousaf and Finance Secretary Shona Robison are among the MSPs stepping down at the next Holyrood elections (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: SNP must be worried as experienced MSPs abandon Holyrood

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer holds a press conference on immigration at Downing Street (Picture: Ian Vogler - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: UK government's migrant changes ignore Scotland's needs

First Minister John Swinney has come out against the Assisted Dying Bill (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Readers' Letters: Swinney's position on assisted dying is perplexing

Keir Starmer and Donald Trump - pictured in February - announced a 'breakthrough' trade deal between the UK and US this week. Picture: Carl Court - Pool/Getty Images

Readers' Letters: Trade deal with mercurial Trump isn't worth a dime

Nicola Sturgeon remains defiant on the trans controversy (Picture: Robert Perry/PA)

Readers' Letters: Women won't forget Sturgeon's role in gender controversy

First Minister John Swinney and colleagues mark one year until Scottish Parliament election on 7 May 2025 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Make Scotland better in name of those who died for VE Day

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has promised 'Doge Lincolnshire' in reference to the government-slashing Department of Government Efficiency in the US, headed by Elon Musk. (Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Farage's UK Doge is a hollow gimmick for hollow times

First Minister John Swinney has raised concerns about the rise of Reform UK (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers Letters: Swinney should ask himself why people are voting for Reform

A reader fears for the future of the Bass Rock's gannet population if the Berwick Bank wind farm is built (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' letters: For 'Berwick Bank' wind farm read 'Bird Mincing Eyesore'

Former Labour prime minister Sir Tony Blair this week said limiting fossil fuels as part of the UK's drive towards net zero was 'doomed to fail' (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Blair's comments on net zero should stir us into action

Lord Bracadale has chaired the Sheku Bayoh inquiry since it began in 2020 (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Readers' Letters: It's time to set limits on public inquiry costs

Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman yesterday survived a crunch vote to keep her top job on Holyrood’s Equalities Committee after controversial comments about the Supreme Court (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Equalities Committee decision on Chapman 'spineless'

Shona Robison wanted to remove the two-child benefit cap in Scotland

Scotsman Letters: People who choose to have large families should pay their way

Scottish Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater (Picture: Jane Barlow)

Readers' Letters: New guidelines on single-sex spaces seem fair

Private firms issued 12.77 million parking tickets in 2023/24 (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Readers' letters: Private firms issuing parking fines must be reined in

Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie and culture spokesperson Neil Bibby hosted the cast of River City as they visited Holyrood yesterday to call on MSPs to back the campaign to save the Scottish soap opera (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' letters: BBC 'not turning its back on Scottish talent'

Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman has been criticised for accusing the Supreme Court of 'bigotry, prejudice and hatred' (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty)

Readers' letters: Misuse of language will lead to 'bigotry fatigue'

Pope Francis was dubbed the People’s Pope and the Slum Bishop (Picture: AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Readers' letters: Pope Francis had a rare gift – he was greater than his office

Rangers' Cyriel Dessers and Hibs' Jack Iredale battle for the ball during a Premiership match at Ibrox earlier this month (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Readers' letters: League reconstruction could usher in a whole new ball game

Higher Education Minister Graeme Dey says free tuition for Scottish university students must stay

Readers' Letters: Scottish Government clueless when it come to Education

Nicola Sturgeon (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' Letters: £75 to meet you? Sorry Nicola, we've already paid the price

Swede Greta Thunberg came to prominence as a teenage climate activist but lately has been condemning Israel's response to the 2023 Hamas attacks (Picture: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: When did 'activism' become a career in itself?

Susan Smith (left) and Marion Calder, directors of For Women Scotland, arrive at the Supreme Court before Wednesday's ruling (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Be kind to all, but let's ditch gender madness

Campaigners celebrate outside the Supreme Court in London after judges ruled the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex (Picture: Lucy North/PA Wire)

Readers' Letters: Of course legal definition of 'woman' is based on biology

First Minister John Swinney is set to turn down the pay rise awarded to ministerial colleagues (Picture: Jeff Mitchell/PA Wire)

Readers' letters: Shocked but not surprised by £20,000 pay rise for ministers

The UK Parliament was recalled to debate the renationalisation Of British Steel on Saturday (Picture: Getty)

Readers' Letters: British Steel should be first of many interventions

Scottish Conservatives shadow equalities minister Tess White has called on the Scottish Government to give 'short shrift' to TUC calls to U-turn on their support of the Cass Report

Readers' Letters: Why is union interfering in medical matters?

A march in support of Scottish Independence in May 2024 in Glasgow (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Losing Independence referendum saved Scotland from austerity

Growing old in Scotland should be something to be celebrated, not feared (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Funds must be found for social care of aged and infirm

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves visited the Jaguar Land Rover plant in Birmingham this week with fears of a global trade war mounting (Picture: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA Wire

Readers' letters: Donald Trump's tariffs are a godsend for Keir Starmer

Edinburgh Airport’s head of security the multi-million pound project will speed up security checks

Readers' letters: Edinburgh Airport is not fit for purpose

Artist's impressions showing the front and back views of the proposed statue of Dr Elsie Inglis on the Royal Mile

Readers' letters: Proposed Elsie Inglis statue is not a fitting tribute

First Minister John Swinney lays a wreath to mark the sacrifice made by his uncle Thomas Peck Hunter during a Royal Marine Commandos memorial service at the Hunter Memorial in Leith, Edinburgh, yesterday (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Readers' Letters: Swinney's heroic uncle would surely have been a proud Briton

Scot Squad's Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson (Jack Docherty) - master of all he surveys (Picture: Jamie Simpson/BBC Pictures)

Readers' letters: Chief Miekelson's 'bams' appear in many guises today

Health Secretary Neil Gray. Picture: Andrew Milligan

Readers letters': Gray's needs to make his intentions clear about NHS reform

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivering her Spring Statement in the House of Commons, London. Labour says the government's priority is growth (Picture: House of Commons/PA Wire)

Readers' letters: Labour's push for growth will be stymied by tax hikes

Libraries are shutting down at an alarming rate, a reader says (Picture: Neil Hanna)

Readers' letters: Library closures in rural Scotland will harm literacy levels

America under Donald Trump is not to be relied upon, a reader says (Picture: AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

Readers' letters: It's time to accept that the world has changed

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement in the House of Commons (Picture: House of Commons/PA Wire)

Readers' letters: Rachel Reeves has declared war on the most vulnerable

Former Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Health Jeane Freeman arrives ahead of her appearance at the Covid-19 Inquiry on Monday (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scotland hobbled by Westminster when it came to Covid PPE

Then first minister Nicola Sturgeon gives a Covid-19 press briefing at St Andrews House on March 27 2020 (Picture: Michael Schofield - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Plan needed to avoid new pandemic carnage

Sir Keir Starmer has upset some traditional supporters since he became Prime Minister (Picture: Chris Radburn - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Labour has lost right to call itself 'people's party'

The UK Government has abolished NHS England, with its functions being taken over by the Department of Health and Social Care (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: SNP government's Civil Service and quangos need pruning

The Whitelee Wind Farm on Eaglesham Moor in East Renfrewshire. The Scottish Governments wants to speed up the process for approving electricity infrastructure projects (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' letters: Ministers riding roughshod over rights of communities

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at Downing Street (Picture: Hollie Adams - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Slashing welfare bill a heartless move

£10 million has been awarded as part of the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal to look into extending the Borders railway (Picture: Scott Louden)

Readers' Letters: Borders railway expansion would not benefit Scotland

Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks to media in Edinburgh after announcing she won't seek re-election to Holyrood next year (Picture: Robert Perry/PA Wire)

Readers' Letters: Sturgeon came so close to assuring a legacy to be proud of

After months of calls for his resignation Michael Matheson has announced he won't seek re-election as an MSP next year (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers Letters: The Mystery of Michael Matheson

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was 'feminist to her fingertips' (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Scotsman Letters: It's ridiculous to claim Sturgeon was champion of women

Mairi Gougeon is the latest SNP MSP to announce she's had enough (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Shaky future ahead for SNP with third of MSPs to go

West Lothian households will see their council tax rise by 8.95 per cent in 2025/26 in a move reflected across the country

Readers' Letters: It's time for councils to stop taking ever more tax

The young Nicola Sturgeon and the seasoned politician - will Scotland see her like again?

Reader's Letters: Sturgeon's career was a case of ambition overruling ability

Some senior citizens may be messing up the world but many others are helping out in the community, says reader (Picture: Doug Mills/The New York Times-Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Don't blame seniors for the ills of the world

A young woman being treated in hospital (Picture: Getty)

Readers' Letters: It's time to take women's health seriously

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves stands near an ASRAAM missile during a visit to RAF Northolt in north London last week (Picture: Dan Kitwood/PA Wire)

Readers' letters: Rachedl Reeves doesn't need to cut benefits

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Osaka in 2019 (Picture: Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Readers' Letters: Russia is waging a secret war on the UK

National Service volunteers in 1953 at a Civil Defence training centre at Taymouth Castle near Aberfeldy, with tools stored in the emergency vans

Readers' Letters: Time to bring back Civil Defence Corps?

US President Donald Trump's intelligence has been underestimated, says reader (Picture: Carl Court - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: World should be grateful for Donald Trump

Donald Trump is greeted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace during his previous state visit in June 2019 (Picture: Victoria Jones/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Personal values don't apply in international relationships

Traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls depicting Russia's President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in downtown Moscow (Picture: Tatyana Makeyeva/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Trump betrays own people as much as his friends and allies

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is cutting foreign aid in order to up the defence budget (Picture: Justin Tallis - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Increased defence spending won't keep UK safe from aggressors

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