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Letters Where was the independence inspiration in Humza Yousaf’s speech?

I WATCHED most of Humza Yousaf’s Perth speech on the internet and judging by the fairly sparse attendance, others perhaps did the same. I later found the text online on the SNP’s website. It stated it would be a 12-minute read but I managed to read most of it in around three minutes. In essence it was nearly 3500 words to say the Tories are bad, Labour are just as bad, vote SNP to make Scotland Tory-free.

Letters I agree with Pete Wishart that SNP's 'Tory-free' message is unhelpful

I VERY much agree with Pete Wishart regarding his statement that the SNP’s message of members making Scotland Tory-free is “unhelpful” (SNP urged to drop ‘Tory-free’ election campaign message, Mar 18). This message is both negative and undemocratic. While I may disagree with most of what the Tories stand for, they have the right to have these views, just as we have the right to have a different point of view.

Letters Humza Yousaf was right to challenge John Mason on abortion

IT was good to see First Minister Humza Yousaf so eloquently challenge the anti-abortion MSP John Mason, a member of his own party (Humza Yousaf takes SNP MSP to task on buffer zones, thenational.scot, Mar 14). Yousaf is correct to point out that it’s not up to men to decide how the women being targeted by anti-abortion protesters outside hospitals feel. For Mason to dismiss women’s trauma and label it an “overreaction” is gaslighting and misogynistic.

Letters Bankrupt Birmingham has been left to sink, so what hope has Scotland?

BANKRUPT Birmingham, which was the UK local authority worst-hit by the Covid and is a sprawling, densely populated conurbation, has been left to sink by Westminster. As local authority funding has been slashed year on year, Birmingham is the worst but not the only example of a local authority battling to keep essential services going.

Letters US is not facilitating genocide in Gaza to ‘protect democracy’

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden has green-lit Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war. He continues to bankroll the Israeli regime while feigning concern for the Palestinians, offering performative gestures such as announcing the building of an Israeli-controlled temporary port for aid, rather than forcing Israel to open the land crossings that would deliver immediate relief to the starving Palestinians trapped in Rafah.

Letters Alba cannot be blamed for the SNP’s failure to deliver independence

ISN’T George Gunn’s parting snipe at Alba (Letters, Mar 13) beneath contempt? After citing a long litany of devolution’s failures, during the long stewardship by the party he clearly supports, he has the temerity to describe Alba, which only exists because of SNP’s abject failure to deliver independence at a time of the best political and economic conditions to achieve it, as like another hole in the A9.