Letters

SNP ministers have scrapped plans to centralise social care services (Picture:stock.adobe.com)

Readers' Letters: SNP to blame for collapse of National Care Service plan
A reader lays the blame for the failure of the National Care Service plan firmly at the SNP’s door

First Minister John Swinney delivers a speech focused on the Scottish economy in central Glasgow on Wednesday (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' Letters: John Swinney won't be able to stem tide of Trump in Scotland

Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible (Picture: Morry Gash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: At least Trump supporters are getting what they voted for

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's gesture at Donald Trump's inaugural parade was likened by many observers to a Nazi salute (Picture: Angela Weiss/ AFP)

Readers' Letters: World needs more Carnegies and fewer Musks

After praise for improvement at Berwickshire High School, Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth said the role of knowledge would be considered as part of a 'curriculum improvement cycle' (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Lessons should be learned from changed school

The Scottish Pensioners' Forum demonstrated outside the Scottish Parliament in September, asking MSPs to recognise the burden of the cost of living crisis on older people (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: SNP is only party looking out for pensioners

Headlight glare is a cause of concern for many drivers (Picture: Tim Ockenden/PA Wire)

Readers' Letters: Modern headlights are a glaring safety risk

Readers' Letters: Cultural cowardice to remove Burns from Higher English

First Minister John Swinney addresses Holyrood during the first First Minister's Questions of the new year (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: SNP politicians more interested in being 'celebrities'

US President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in November last year (Picture: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Elon Musk and Donald Trump alliance will not last

Dropping off and picking up passengers at Scotland’s busiest airport will cost £6, an increase of £1, from Monday (Picture: Lesley Martin)

Readers' Letters: Edinburgh Airport is fleecing customers with drop-off charges

US President-elect Donald Trump at Tuesday's controversial press conference (Picture: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Readers Letters: Trump should not be 'most powerful man in the world'

The challenges to democracy from populism, nationalism and authoritarianism are real, said Henry McLeish in Monday's Scotsman (Picture: Mark Runnacles/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Democracy wasn't all it's cracked up to be

The SNP operates as a minority government so John Swinney needs the support of MSPs from another political party to get his spending plans through Holyrood (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: It's rich for Swinney to accuse others of 'playing politics'

First Minister John Swinney (left) wants Keir Starmer and his UK Cabinet to bin National Insurance changes that would hurt charities (Picture: Andy Buchanan - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Starmer and Reeves must reverse decision on charities and NI

Scotland's NHS compares favourably with the rest of the UK, a reader suggests (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Labour does not have a magic bullet to fix the NHS

The near deserted Princes Street on Hogmanay after all outdoor events including the street party and fireworks display planned for Edinburgh's New Year were cancelled (Picture: Andy Buchanan/PA)

Readers' Letters: Health and safety gone mad at Hogmanay

Decades ago Scottish children proved accomplished pupils, says reader. Here Miss Williams is seen teaching in the smallest school in Britain, in Tweedsmuir. Nine-year-old Bobby and ten-year-old sister Margaret Smith make up the class with eight-year-old Neill McKellar (Picture: Martin/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Here's what's gone wrong with Scottish schools

John Swinney, pictured getting a Covid jag in 2021, says Scots can be confident in NHS (Picture: Andrew Milligan / POOL / AFP)

Readers' Letters: How can we believe Swinney's assurances on Scottish NHS?

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: Elon Musk listens as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump addresses a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. As is tradition with incoming presidents, Trump is traveling to Washington, DC to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House as well as meet with Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Elon Musk is no Jimmy Carter

Chancellor Rachel Reeves flanked by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Labour already out of ideas on economy

Bernhardt Url opined that if he thought about our shameful treatment of, say, turkeys, he wouldn't eat meat for six months. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe

Scotsman Letters: Sad reflection

King Charles III sits alongside Queen Camilla as he reads the King's Speech from the The Sovereign's Throne in the House of Lords chamber during the State Opening of Parliament in July this year (Picture: Henry Nicholls/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Labour has no intention of abolishing House of Lords

The CalMac ferry to Rothesay, Isle of Bute (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' Letters: Stop being unfair to ferries

The likes of wolves becoming a common site in Scotland's rural areas worries reader (Picture: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: I'm not totally wild about idea of rewilding Scotland

NHS maintenance backlog costs have increased to £1.3bn. Picture: Jeff J MItchell

Readers Letters: NHS maintenance matters

The Old Crofters Cottage, near Broadford on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, 20th century (Picture: CM Dixon/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Abolish crofting to increase democratic land ownership

Graham Simpson wants constituents to have a process by which they more easily rid themselves of unwanted MSPs

Readers Letters: Constituents should have mechanism to get rid of unwanted MSPs

Former first minister Humza Yousaf at Bute House in Edinburgh. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Readers' Letters: Yousaf has an exaggerated sense of his own importance

Only people with relevant experience should be able to be MSPs at the Scottish Parliament, says reader (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Quality of MSPs hobbling Scotland

The recent Scottish Budget was greeted with disappointment by Scotland's hospitality industry

Readers' Letters: Scottish Government must back hospitality industry

John Swinney speaks in the Scottish Parliament. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Readers' Letters: There’s no need for a new law around non-fatal strangulation

Russia's President Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Moscow this week (Picture: Sergei KARPUKHIN / POOL / AFP)

Readers' Letters: World War Three is not just around the corner

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner want to see 1.5 million new homes built in the UK over the next five years (Picture: Chris Radburn - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Don't call us Nimbys, we're fighting for Scotland

Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, campaigned for the UK to have a National Health Service (Picture: Edward G Malindine/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: NHS has never been anything but 'grossly underfunded'

Anti-Brexit campaigners take part in a torchlight procession to the Scottish Parliament on the third anniversary of Brexit in January 2023 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: The only opinion poll that counts is an election

First Minister John Swinney looks on as Finance Secretary Shona Robison as the finance secretary presents the government's budget at Scottish Parliament Building last week (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Two-child benefit announcement an exercise in wishful thinking

The Scottish Government should focus on enhancing the quality of care provided to senior citizens, a reader says (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Readers' Letters: Scottish Budget's impact on care homes should be unacceptable

Reader says £100 extra towards pensioners' fuel bills would be wiped out by Council Tax increase (Picture: Adobe)

Readers’ Letters: Forget £100 for fuel, here's how to help seniors this winter

Scottish Finance Minister Shona Robison has vowed to scrap the two-child benefit cap (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Why should responsible families pay for ever more children?

A total of 66 more roads in Ediniburgh have been earmarked for 20mph speed limits (Picture: Neil Hanna)

Readers' Letters: Why introduce 20mph zones when there is no enforcement?

A visitor checks his vitals next to an AI-enabled medical robot at a Bangkok trade show (Picture: Manan Vatsyayana / AFP/ Getty)

Readers' Letters: NHS challenges could lead to a robotics-enabled future

Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur introduced the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Decision to die is not about suffering, but choice

Members of the public and pro-independence supporters gathered to pay their respects outside the public memorial service for the former first minister and Alba party leader Alex Salmond. Picture: Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images

Readers' Letters: Follow Salmond and ensure Scotland's voice is heard

Sunset Song has been removed

Readers' Letters: removal of Sunset Song is disgraceful

Speed limits on single carriageways in Scotland would be cut from 60mph to 50mph (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' Letters: 50mph speed limit won't make roads safer

Scottish Saltire flags flutter in the breeze as they mark the border with England, near Berwick-upon-Tweed (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)

Scotsman Letters: St Andrew's Day is a bank holiday - so why is it not being obs...

Drive-through Covid vaccinations at Queen Margaret University on the outskirts of Edinburgh in February 2021 (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' Letters: Scotland can take a lead globally in pandemic preparedness

Activists demanding that rich countries pay up for climate finance for developing countries of the Global South protest at COP29 (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Sale of indulgences is alive and well at COP29

Palliative care services are facing extreme financial pressure (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Readers' Letters: We must stop kicking the assisted dying can down the road

Russian military vehicles drive on Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow In May this year. The May 9 event celebrated the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Warmongering Russia is pushing for a global conflict

Donald Trump’s son Eric accused the Scottish Government of making it 'virtually impossible' to do business in the country (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Trump son wrong to criticise Scottish Government

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says the party will expand eligibility for the winter fuel payment if they form the next Scottish Government (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Sarwar should stand up to Starmer for sake of Scotland's OAPs

Keir Starmer attends the second day of the G20 Summit in Rio De Janeiro yesterday (Picture: Saul Loeb/ POOL / AFP)

Trading with the US is not as simple as it sounds

Scotland's NHS is under the microscope (Picture: Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Claims Scottish NHS is best of four nations need examining

The UK Government should be careful of trade deals with Donald Trump that come with conditions, says reader (Picture: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: UK should keep well away from Trump trade deals

On Thursday Health Secretary Neil Gray made a statement to Holyrood on his use of ministerial cars to go to football games (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Neil Gray should pay public back for limousine football trips

Angus and Perthshire Glens MP Dave Doogan, seen with First Minister John Swinney, is understood to be seeking election an MSP (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: MPs' Holyrood ambitions a sign it's all but over for SNP

Stephen Flynn MP, leader of the SNP Westminster Group, now wants to be an MSP too, displacing sitting colleague Audrey Nicoll (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Expect infighting among SNP over Flynn's Holyrood gambit

Members of the public attend the service of Remembrance to commemorate Armistice Day at the Scott Monument in Edinburgh (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Remembering sacrifices made by forebears is not glorying war

The baby boxes given to Scotland's new mothers contain a mattress, fitted sheet and blanket, clothes from newborn up to the age of 6 months, a bath towel, a travel changing mat, muslin cloth squares and a bib (Picture: Scottish Government/PA)

Readers' Letters: Taxpayer-funded baby boxes should not be universal benefit

First Minister John Swinney lays a wreath during the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Stone of Remembrance outside the City Chambers in Edinburgh. (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Readers' Letters: Remembrance in schools should include peace studies

A triumphant Donald Trump addresses the crowd during the election night party at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in Florida (Picture: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Maybe Donald Trump won't be a loose cannon after all

At FMQ's this week Patrick Harvie called Donald Trump a “misogynist, a climate denier, a fraudster, a conspiracy monger, a racist...” (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Harvie's comments on Trump are a danger to Scotland

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer flanked by Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte (right) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, all of whom will be paying close attention to Donald Trump's foreign policy (Picture: Kin Cheung - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: UK most not adopt isolationist stance in face of Trump

Are enough of Scotland's young people able to access free university places, asks reader (Picture: Adobe)

Readers' Letters: 'Free education' comes at a large cost to the nation

United States voters go to the polls today to choose between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris (Picture: Kamil Krzaczynski/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

American voters don't have much of a choice in presidential race

Former First Ministers Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf both have companies to channel their extra-curricular payments (Picture: Andrew Milligan/Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Are former first ministers not busy or well-paid enough?

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