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SNP MSP and Education Minister Jenny Gilruth (Picture: Ken Jack/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Verdict is in on Sturgeon's education ambitions

Recycling schemes in other countries are not driven by a political desire to do things differently to England (Picture: Jonathan Pow/PA)

Deposit return scheme's fate is another fine mess, not a constitutional outrage

CalMac is being punished for Scottish Government's own failings (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Ferries scandal gets worse with fines for CalMac and millions for consultants

The decision to house Ukrainian refugees, seen observing a minute's silence for Ukrainian troops, on the MS Victoria cruise ship explains one reason why migrants don't move to Scotland – a lack of housing (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Scotland needs to sell itself to migrants as a good place to live – Brian Wilson

Last year's conference

Green energy conference: How Scotland can be a global leader in renewables

Scottish universities are over-reliant on income from foreign students (Picture: Chris Radburn/PA)

Why Scottish university funding is unsustainable – Brian Wilson

Angus Robertson, seen with Humza Yousaf, needs to show greater commitment to free speech (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Robertson a coward for dodging question on Cherry's cancellation – Brian Wilson

The then First minister Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater announce the Bute House Agreement in 2021, setting up a power-sharing partnership (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

How Sturgeon, Saltires and Greens have left a dangerous legacy – Brian Wilson

The cost of HMP Glasgow, due to replace Barlinnie prison, above, has rised from £100 million to £400 million (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Spare us the hypocrisy on public-private finance deals, Mr Yousaf – Brian Wilson

Scottish Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater are ministers in the Scottish Government after striking a deal with the SNP (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

How much damage will Green chancers do before they’re called out? – Brian Wilson

Dominic Raab has resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary (Picture: Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Brian Wilson: Raab quitting means 4/5ths of Britannia Unchained fanatics are out

Nicola Sturgeon speaks to the media outside her home in Uddingston, after her husband, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, was 'released without charge pending further investigation' amid a police probe into the party's finances (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Was the Scottish Government under Sturgeon run like the SNP? – Brian Wilson

Plans to close at least ten per cent of Scottish inshore waters to all forms of fishing are a scandal (Picture: Steve Parson/PA)

SNP's centralising mentality has put a curse on Scotland – Brian Wilson

Eleven were killed and dozens injured when a bomb exploded just before a Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen in 1987 (Picture: PA)

Myths about the Troubles risk history repeating itself – Brian Wilson

Police officers outside the home of former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, and his wife Nicola Sturgeon, in Uddingston, after he was 'released without charge pending further investigation' (Picture: Robert Perry/PA)

After Murrell's arrest, an election is even more 'imperative' – Brian Wilson

The closure of bank branches has long been a concern for many communities (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Will MSPs intervene over bank closures blighting town centres? – Brian Wilson

Humza Yousaf attends his first Cabinet meeting at Bute House yesterday (Picture: Russell Cheyne-Pool/Getty Images)

Pretentious titles may be least of our worries about SNP Cabinet – Brian Wilson

The Scottish Government is consulting on plans to protect large areas of the sea (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Victory for Forbes could end SNP coalition with Scottish Greens – Brian Wilson

Nicola Sturgeon at a launch ceremony for the MV Glen Sannox in 2017 (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Brian Wilson: Naming Hull 802 the ‘MV Nicola Sturgeon’ would be fitting tribute

John Swinney told MSPs not to shout at him during testy exchanges in the Scottish Parliament over two delayed and over-budget ferries being built for Calmac (Picture: Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/pool/PA)

There's still a lot to shout about over ferry scandal, Mr Swinney – Brian Wilson

Are SNP leadership candidates Kate Forbes and Ash Regn trying to counter a conspiracy or create one? (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

SNP candidates 'putting a smell' on the whole party operation – Brian Wilson

The Scottish Government has committed hundreds of millions of pounds to land restoration projects, causing land prices to rise (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)

'Land restoration' pot of gold for greenwashing speculators must be questioned

Kate Forbes delivered a carefully targeted Exocet across the bows of 'continuity' SNP leadership candidate Humza Yousaf (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

'Mediocre for Scotland' won't make a great SNP election slogan – Brian Wilson

Rishi Sunak greets EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Windsor this week (Picture: Dan Kitwood/WPA pool/Getty Images)

UK shouldn't try to rejoin EU but it can stop moving further away – Brian Wilson

Baroness Betty Boothroyd, the first woman to be Speaker of the House of Commons, has died, according to current Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who said she was "one of a kind".

Betty Boothroyd was a role model that Holyrood could learn from – Brian Wilson

Given problems with island ferry services, airports like Stornoway are even more important (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Island airport strikes are out of sight, out of mind for SNP ministers

SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes has come under fire for her views on a number of social issues (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Brian Wilson: Attacks on Kate Forbes are intolerance dressed up as liberalism

Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn pictured in 2019, when the former was on the Labour frontbench and the latter was party leader (Picture: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

Why Starmer had to stay in Labour party under Corbyn – Brian Wilson

When Liz Truss became Conservative party leader and Prime Minister, Nicola Sturgeon called for a general election (Picture: Rob Pinney/Getty Images)

In Sturgeon's own words, an election is a 'democratic imperative' – Brian Wilson

Nicola Sturgeon leaves a press conference at Bute House after announcing she will stand down as First Minister (Picture: Jane Barlow/pool/Getty Images)

Why Nicola Sturgeon was the First Minister of Failure – Brian Wilson

Last year's bin workers strike was a reminder of how important council services are (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Scotland’s councils must take a stand against SNP funding cuts – Brian Wilson

Rights to build wind farms in Scottish waters may have been sold off far too cheaply (Picture: Ben Birchall/PA)

Offshore wind giveaway may have cost Scotland billions of pounds – Brian Wilson

No one disagrees with the aim of the deposit return scheme for bottles and cans, but it needs to be workable (Picture: George Frey/Getty Images)

Time to admit that nobody is ready for deposit return scheme – Brian Wilson

Rishi Sunak should sack Nadhim Zahawi as a government minister but keep him as party chair (Picture: Justin Tallis/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Tory sleaze is turning Rishi Sunak into the new John Major – Brian Wilson

Anders Opedal, president of Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor, has warned bills are likely to stay high (Picture: Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images)

Consumers should not be forced to fund green energy transition – Brian Wilson

Rishi Sunak visited Morecambe to promote the latest round of levelling-up grants (Picture: Owen Humphreys - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Tories' levelling-up funds are a wasteful, bureaucratic lottery – Brian Wilson

US musician David Crosby, who co-founded two influential rock bands during his career, has died at the age of 81.

US singer-songwriter David Crosby dies age 81 following long illness

If pipers cannot find a home on BBC Radio Scotland, where else can they go? (Picture: Chris Furlong/Getty Images)

BBC Radio Scotland needs to raise its sights – Brian Wilson

Nicola Sturgeon visits a wind farm near Strathaven in November (Picture: Robert Perry/Getty Images)

Scotland's future as 'renewable powerhouse' depends on size of UK market

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer makes his first major speech in 2023 during a visit to UCL at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London.

Hoarding powers in Edinburgh is no more acceptable than Whitehall - Brian Wilson

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Pat Cullen joins members of the RCN on the picket line outside Leeds General Infirmary

Vilifying the RCN is a tough task for Sunak - Brian Wilson

MSPs should be up in arms over delays to the CalMac ferry timetable (Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

The surreal reason CalMac doesn't have a timetable to sail with – Brian Wilson

Rishi Sunak has said it is 'completely reasonable' for the UK Government to examine the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Picture:Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Brian Wilson: Vetoing gender bill would play into Sturgeon's hands

A licensing law expert believes SNP plans to control alcohol marketing are 'more restrictive than even the temperance legislation of the late 19th and early 20th centuries' (Picture: Tunbridge/Tunbridge-Sedgwick Pictorial Press/Getty Images)

Someone tell the SNP: prohibition has never worked – Brian Wilson

Lorna Slater is the minister for green skills, circular economy and biodiversity

Brian Wilson: Slater finally bottles her bonkers deposit-return scheme

Deputy Scottish First Minister John Swinney arrives to deliver the Scottish Budget for 2023-24 to the Scottish Parliament (Picture: Andrew Cowan/pool/Getty Images)

Brian Wilson: Scotland would be far worse off without UK's shared resources

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, right, and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown greet each other during the launch of the latter's report on constitutional change (Picture: Danny Lawson/PA)

Brian Wilson: Best way to save Union is to vote for a better government

Years late and massively over budget, two ferries being built for CalMac are still not ready (Picture: John Devlin)

No justice for Holyrood committee from disrespectful Keith Brown – Brian Wilson

James McAvoy spoke out about racist abuse of fellow actors in Glasgow (Picture: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)

James McAvoy did Scotland a service by calling out racism – Brian Wilson

Outgoing SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford won't be missed, says Brian Wilson (Picture: House of Commons/PA)

Brian Wilson: Blackford's SNP group at Westminster were a rabble without a cause

Conservative MP Matt Hancock caused controversy after becoming a contestant on reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!

Whatever else about Hancock, he’s right to campaign on dyslexia  – Brian Wilson

The decision to award Fifa's World Cup to Qatar has been strongly criticised for a number of reasons (Picture: David Ramos/Getty Images)

Double standards turning World Cup into festival of condemnation – Brian Wilson

One lot of Tories can't blame another lot for the nation's woes (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

All shades of Tory blue have contributed to unremitting failure – Brian Wilson

Nicola Sturgeon should explain to MSPs why figures about Scotland's share of Europe's wind energy were wrong (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Holyrood needs to hold SNP to account for misleading MSPs – Brian Wilson

The people whose factories have belched pollution into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution did not act as Scots, English or French but as capitalists (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Brian Wilson: 'Reparations' have big implications. There's much to apologise for

Scotland's 20p bottle return scheme is a debacle in the making - Brian Wilson

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A screenshot from one of the Red Ice videos uploaded to BitChute, in which white nationalist broadcadter Lana Lokteff describes Humza Yousaf and his family as "enjoying the fruits of a white society." Picture: BitChute

Police probing abuse aimed at Humza Yousaf by white supremacists

Recycling schemes in other countries are not driven by a political desire to do things differently to England (Picture: Jonathan Pow/PA)

Deposit return scheme's fate is another fine mess, not a constitutional outrage

Analysis of the Scottish Government's consultation on the proposed Land Reform Bill have been released (Katharine Hay/The Scotsman)

Land Reform consultation highlights little trust in Scottish Government