Letter: Broken Bond

It could only happen in Scotland. Where else would someone being touted as the "greatest ever Scot?" (your feature, 25 August) choose not to live or pay full taxes in the country he apparently loves so much?

Or that he and the party he supports whined and clamoured for a British knighthood, surely the unassailable height of hypocrisy.

Then Joan McAlpine (Comment, 25 August) purports to defend her leader, Alex Salmond, obediently putting out the party line. She confuses, deliberately or otherwise, self-confidence and egomaniacal bluster, belligerence and lack of grace and statesmanship. These facets of the First Minister's character are the antithesis of good leadership.

Only when egos such as those of Connery and Salmond have left the scene can Scotland move forward.

Alexander McKay

New Cut Rigg

Edinburgh