LETTER OF THE DAY 📨 Holyrood anniversary is no cause for celebration
This week polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said that devolution had been very good for the SNP. But has the SNP been good for devolution? One reader thinks not.
This week polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said that devolution had been very good for the SNP. But has the SNP been good for devolution? One reader thinks not.
Too often one hears comments like ''I hated maths in school'' or ''I was rubbish at maths'' expressed almost proudly. Somehow it’s okay for people to chuckle about not being good at maths. Yet, if I said “I never learned to read”, they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
When John Swinney says he is going to be First Minister for “everyone” it will have as much meaning as when his then boss Nicola Sturgeon said the same thing on taking on the top job.
The situation in the Middle East and the dire situation in Gaza are never far from our readers’ thoughts.
The suggestion that Kate Forbes has “sensible things to say about pupils needing to learn that hard work and perseverance are the answer” is recognised by many as a dated myth
The policies of the SNP-Green Government left Scotland ill-prepared for today's challenges
During a speech yesterday when he accepted the post of SNP leader, he said he would “seek, with respect and courtesy, to persuade people of the case for independence”.
SORRY, Mark Smith, just as there really are no free lunches, there are no "free" prescriptions in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland where the costs of prescriptions are paid through general taxation in the same way as treatment in other ways within the NHS is funded.
If the SNP had enacted John Swinney's mantra in 2014, things would be very different.
When John Swinney first announced his intention to stand for the SNP leadership, he underlined his experience and stated that he is a “stronger and tougher” character compared to when he stood down as party leader in 2004.
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