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In his ­letter complaining about audience participation in the leaders’ debates (20 April), Alexander McKay uses the word “zealots” three times to describe the SNP.

By The Newsroom
Tuesday, 21st April 2015, 1:00 am

Can I suggest he leavens the boredom by referring to us as fanatics, partisans or militants?

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