Letters: Starkey attack

Of far greater interest and importance than the Starkey-Hitler jibe was your report (20 April) on the First Minister’s alleged attempts at concealing the fact that the Korean company had pulled out of the deal his party was debating in Holyrood two months after it was known the arrangement was dead.

Can we now expect Mr Salmond’s veiled threat to the Economist, that it “would rue the day” it printed in jocular fashion its opinions on the fate of post-break-up Scotland to be repeated?

This time aimed at those who would point out that again, as with The Gathering financing, the emperor is wearing no clothes.

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Mr Salmond appears to have reached the stage where he feels he can do anything, any time with impunity. Ineffectual opposition, a complacent, generally indifferent electorate, with some notable exceptions a mostly adoring and cowed media, the proverbial bloated big fish reigns supreme in the puddle.

It is time for the people of this country to wake up.

Alexander McKay

New Cut Rigg

Edinburgh

In the spat between David Starkey and Alex Salmond, an SNP spokesman said: “He is getting dafter and crankier with every passing day.” I had to read on to see who the spokesman was meaning!

William Ballantine

Dean Road

Bo’ness, West Lothian