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Has Scottish Labour leader Anas Sawar struck the correct note when he says that the Council polls on 5 May are “about one thing only – the cost-of-living crisis” (Scotsman, 7 April)?

Boris Johnson has come up with a pathetic excuse of ‘nobody told me that I was breaking the rules’ - those very rules which he, as leader of the nation, had imposed upon the people of the UK and by which he too was bound.

The welcome research by the National Trust for Scotland noting that the number of its sites with known links to slavery has more than doubled (Scotsman, 22 December) should come as no surprise.

I am very concerned about the potential of another lockdown of hospitality coming soon after Christmas.

IAIN Macwhirter makes some salient points in his article on the future of exams and the SQA ("Somerville discovers something worse than grading…

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.

Readers Letters: Scotland should close borders to beat Covid Scotsman Letters © Is Scotland missing a trick by allowing travel into the country? Over 100,000 coronavirus deaths have now been recorded. The UK has a death rate of 1471 per million of population. Only Belgium and Slovenia have higher rates and even the US with its much-criticised handling of the epidemic has a lower rate than the UK. Regrettably the UK government’s approach to controlling the virus is not workin...