Keep up the fun

It’s no surprise that Nationalists like C Murphy (Letters, 
1 November) wish to censor your contributor, Brian Wilson. Mr Wilson’s regular and surgical dissection of the Nationalist case, to which the party seldom has any reasoned response, must sting supporters of independence to the core. And what’s more, it’s done with a fine sense of humour, another affront to the mulish sensibilities of his 
opponents.

Mr Wilson is an excellent writer with a broad experience of UK and Scottish politics. That he leavens his journalism with a 
judicious mixture of forensics and fun only adds to the impact of his work.

That it so annoys his opponents that they wish to silence him is reason enough, in my view, to encourage him to continue to publish and to keep up the good work.

Alex Gallagher

Phillips Avenue

Largs

Like most educated people, I like to listen to both sides of an argument. However, in his letter, C Murphy asks why Brian Wilson’s column is allowed to continue.

Might I deign to suggest that it offers many of us a counter-argument to the regular and oft- repeated doctrines of “it will be so” statements from SNP leaders and activists?

GM Lindsay

Kinross

Perthshire