Framing liberty
Three cheers for Christopher Harvie for taking on our art gallery authorities (Letters, 17 May), who always know better than their visiting public what that public wants to see.
An ex-director of the National Portrait Gallery doesn’t think a portrait of Tony Wedgwood Benn would be appropriate for a Scottish gallery, despite Benn’s half Scottish blood and his family’s contribution to the causes of Scottish radicalism.
So, whose are the new portraits that James Holloway would have hanging in the gilded halls? Don’t tell me; let me guess – Donald Trump (Scottish through his mother’s line) and Rupert Murdoch. Welcome to the Dear Leader’s New Scotland.
David Fiddimore