CRUMBS for the nurses, and a boost for the UK’s killing power – David Pratt’s article is well timed (PM creating an illusion through pursuit of a ‘Global Britain’, March 18). Global Britain replaces Great, enemies are identified and nuclear stocks replenished.
By one means or another – corruption, tax havens, and internet influence – the control of world events is passing into fewer hands.
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Climate change and food supply apart, civilisation is moving inexorably towards a tipping point where megalomania, greed and destructive power unite. Wake up, get royal gossip and similar petty issues off the headlines. Concentrate thinking minds on the value of Scottish independence; it’s our only hope of introducing sanity.
Iain R Thomson
Strathglass
AS a Unionist I find Johnson’s circle-jerking and boasting to be horribly cringeworthy. What did Thatcher say? “Being powerful is being like a lady. If you have to tell someone you are, you aren’t”.
Jacob Campbell
thenational.scot
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