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Readers Letters: Why carp when vaccine roll-out is going so well? I cant be alone in despairing each day, as yet another opposition MSP complains about the Scottish Government response to Covid and yet more letter writers moan about what the government didnt do or arent doing.

by Readers Letters Updated: 03/02/2021, 5:42 pm © PA Prime Minister Boris Johnson Firstly, I totally agree with the contents of Jonathan Mitchell’s letter, particularly where he praises the UK Government for their early procurement of Covid vaccines. This action should be applauded and through this excellent decision, we in Scotland will again reap the benefit of being part of the UK. I liken Boris Johnson to a top-level football manager. By this I mean they need time to settle into th...

Submitting... SNP hypocrisy True to form, the SNPs Ian Blackford launched into extreme grievance mode in the parliamentary debate about the Brexit Trade Bill. Accusing the UK government of betraying and conning Scottish fishermen, little reference was made to the fact that an independent Scotland would try to rejoin the EU and surrender the Scots fishing fleet to the Common Fisheries Policy again. The Brexit trade deal is far from the agreement fishermen were wanting or expecting, but surely it...

Following the celebrations of Thanksgiving, the United States has experienced a huge upsurge in the level of infections and concomitant deaths and there is every possibility that we could face a similar experience at Christmas. Covid-19 i s now endemic in our country and will continue to be potentially lethal to the elderly and those with underlying health problems. The transmission of the virus is especially dangerous indoors where there is little air movement. In this environment, the virus c...